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W poszukiwaniu migracyjnego pisania. Kosmopolityka pewnego przypadku literackiego na Wyspach
Searching for Migratory Writing: The Cosmopolitics of a Literary Work from the British Isles

Author(s): Dorota Kołodziejczyk
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: migration; migration writing; worldliness; cosmopolitanism; cosmopolitics

Summary/Abstract: Locating the discussion about Polish literature written on the British Isles after 2004 at the intersection of postcolonial and post-dependency studies, the article aims to show the need to formulate critical paradigms that would be able to include those works’ intensively developing worldliness. This term, which is key for migration writing, was coined by Edward Said and signifies an active awareness of the world (agency and subjectivity). It develops in migration writing as ‘cosmopolitics’ – the cosmopolitanism of contemporary mass migrations. Presenting Piotr Czerwiński’s fiction as a case study, Kołodziejczyk traces processes of going beyond the nation/emigration dichotomy in today’s mobility, nomadism and other forms of migration.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 116-141
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Polish