Inne emigracje? Spotkania (nie)możliwe polskiej prozy powstającej w Niemczech i w Wielkiej Brytanii
Other Emigrations? (Im)Possible Encounters of Polish Prose Written in Germany and the UK
Author(s): Małgorzata Zduniak-WiktorowiczSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Polish Literature, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: emigration; migration; young writers of Polish descent in Germany; Polish prose in the UK; popular literature
Summary/Abstract: The article asks whether the most recent ‘Polish-German’ and ‘Polish-British’ prose by Polish emigre writers is keeping up with literary scholarship and its conspicuous preference for the paradigm of migration over emigration. Zduniak-Wiktorowicz looks at several younger Polish writers working in Germany and England (such as Magdalena Parys, Paulina Schulz, Alexandra Tobor, Jan Krasnowolski and Adam Miklasz) to produce a comparative account of both the circumstances of their emigration and their literary work. She demonstrates that authors born in the 1970s and 1980s draw on literary conventions that have never before been used on such a massive scale in this type of Polish prose. Her corpus includes the action novel, thriller, political thriller, detective novel, and themes related to these genres, such as mystery, taboo, or overcoming cultural conventions.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 308-330
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Polish
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