Między mimikrą a rebelią. Pejzaż (post)kolonialny regionalnej literatury
Between Mimicry and Rebellion: The (Post)Colonial Landscape of Regional Literature
Author(s): Małgorzata MikołajczakSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Customs / Folklore, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: regional literature; literature from Lubuskie Province; postwar regionalism; internal colonialism; (post)colonial landscape; mimicry; rebellion
Summary/Abstract: Mikołajczak looks at postwar regional Polish literature – especially the literature that originates in the so-called recovered territories – from a postcolonial perspective. Her point of departure consists of two related assumptions: first, that the relationship between regional works and the historically variable political and cultural centre plays a key role in the mechanisms of these works’ creation; and second, that the development of these works is steered by a tension between regionalism’s tendency towards the universal on the one hand and its tendency towards differentiation on the other hand. These opposing tendencies also inform the positions of ‘mimicry’ and ‘rebellion’ that recur in different stages of the development of regional literature, representing a compensation for the weakness that results from the conditioning of centre and periphery.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 283-305
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish
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