Preparing the image of a black person in the anthology Nyam nyam by Edward Kozikowski and Emil Zegadłowicz Cover Image

Przyrządzanie wizerunku Murzyna w antologii „Niam niam” Edwarda Kozikowskiego i Emila Zegadłowicza
Preparing the image of a black person in the anthology Nyam nyam by Edward Kozikowski and Emil Zegadłowicz

Author(s): Dorota Wojda
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Studies of Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: mystification; postcolonialism; picture of Negro in literature; symbolic anthropophagia; a performance;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an interpretation of texts published in 1923 as a collection of translated African poetry, which was in fact a literary mystification. The concepts of postcolonial criticism are used to analyze some racial stereotypes that have been updated by the authors of the performance and to demonstrate how they project their own ideas of regionalism and primitivism on the characters in their poems, thereby committing an act of symbolic anthropophagy.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 77-94
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish