Opowiadania Agnieszki Dale w nurcie BrexLit
Agnieszka Dale’s Short Stories in the BrexLit Movement

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the work of Agnieszka Dale – a Polish writer who has lived in London for over 20 years and is the author of short stories written in English. The stories collected in the volume Fox Season and Other Short Stories (2017) focus on the political events and social tensions preceding Brexit, depicting the everyday experiences of migrants and the atmosphere of growing uncertainty. The aim of this article is to provide an introductory discussion of Dale’s prose, as well as an attempt to capture how literature addresses the socio-cultural complexity of processes resulting from political conditions that have significantly altered the status, position, and sense of belonging of European Union citizens living in the United Kingdom. The analysis also examines selected narrative strategies, ways of constructing the migration experience, and representations of intercultural relations present in the author’s short stories, with particular emphasis on the female perspective and the experience of everyday life. Dale’s work, still relatively unknown to Polish readers, constitutes an important and valuable voice in the emerging BrexLit movement, documenting the migration experience, identity tensions in contemporary Europe, and the transformations of contemporary forms of cultural identity.

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