Autonomy or Community? Social Discourse in the Prose of the Class of ’70s Cover Image

Autonomia czy wspólnota? Dyskurs społeczny w prozie „roczników siedemdziesiątych”
Autonomy or Community? Social Discourse in the Prose of the Class of ’70s

Author(s): Wojciech Browarny
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Sławomir Shuty; Mariusz Sieniewicz; Michał Witkowski; Dorota Masłowska; Wojciech Kuczok; Radosław Kobierski; Błażej Dzikowski; Daniel Odija; Michał Olszewski; Joanna Wilengowska

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the issues of social identity in the novels and short stories by writers born in the ’70s of the last century or at the beginning of the following decade. The title defines the article’s essential problem of relationship between the individual and the community in the prose by Sławomir Shuty, Mariusz Sieniewicz, Michał Witkowski, Dorota Masłowska, Wojciech Kuczok, Radosław Kobierski, Błażej Dzikowski, Daniel Odija, Michał Olszewski, and Joanna Wilengowska. Special attention is paid to such structures of social identity as family, group of contemporaries, national and religious community, and also to the schemes created by everyday life, culture, and mass communication.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 137-155
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish