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The Promised Isles: A Critical Reconnaissance

Author(s): Dariusz Nowacki
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Migration Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Polish prose; UK; Ireland; emigration

Summary/Abstract: Examining twenty novels and short story collections published between 2006 and 2013, Nowacki outlines the developments of Polish literary prose on economic migration after Poland’s accession to the EU on 1 May 2004. The central question is about artistic and communicative failure: none of the works examined have enjoyed wider success. Nowacki concludes with a working typology of prose concerning Poles on the Isles produced in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 205-228
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish