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For nearly half a century East Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics and remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. Dariusz Skorczewski is the first Polish scholar to apply postcolonial thought to Polish realities, at the same time modifying the theoretical framework developed by other scholars of postcolonialism. Polish Literature and National Identity reveals how the experiences of foreign domination and the history of empire have shaped contemporary Polish culture and society. The book, newly translated from the Polish, introduces Anglophone audiences to the potential implications of postcolonial studies on an understanding of Poland's unique historical position within Europe. Skorczewski explores transformations of national identity as reflected in Polish literature and critical discourse from Romanticism to the twenty-first century. The narrative thus tackles questions surrounding Poland's postcolonial status in contemporary East Central Europe, a region where globalization and cosmopolitanism clash wit

Who reads Polish Literature and National Identity: A Postcolonial Perspective (Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, 23)?

Author

Dariusz Skórczewski; Agnieszka Polakowska

Publisher

University of Rochester Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787449565

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism