Przeciw stereotypom: mimikra a hybrydyczność. Współczesna proza polska na tropie tożsamości polskich migrantów w Wielkiej Brytanii
Between Mimicry and Hybridity: New Fiction Interrogating the Identity of Polish Post-2004 Migrants in the UK
Author(s): Tomasz DobrogoszczSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, Culture and social structure , Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: migrant literature; contemporary Polish literature; postcolonial theory; hybridity; migrant identity; Homi Bhabha
Summary/Abstract: This article examines selected works of Polish fiction to analyse representations of the socio-cultural conditions of the diaspora that formed in the UK after Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004. Dobrogoszcz employs the categories of postcolonial theory used by Homi K. Bhabha in The Location of Culture to offer a critical review of stereotypes that have dominated the perception of Polish migrants in the UK, and to examine their role in the process of migrant identity formation. Faced with the incommensurability of foreign culture, Polish newcomers to the British Isles are bound to deal with the their national identity and to accept its inevitably hybrid character.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 42-59
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
- Content File-PDF