Has an interpretation “revenge” ended? Russia in Polish travel literature since 1989 Cover Image

Czy interpretacyjna „zemsta” trwa? Rosja w polskiej prozie podróżniczo-reportażowej ostatnich lat
Has an interpretation “revenge” ended? Russia in Polish travel literature since 1989

Author(s): Joanna Jastrzębska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Summary/Abstract: The essay aims at showing which ways an interpretation of literature can turn towards. A proposed way is based on how to functionalise post-colonial criticism tools for the purpose of today’s polish literary studies. The author discusses concept of post-colonial researches connected with polish literature about Russia and Russians. The article presents ways of an interpretation of Russia in polish travel literature after 1989. The author writes about three books, witch are a representation of different perspectives of thinking and writing about Russia. The first way is concerned with polish recolonization of the former USSR. Second is connected with a position of a wanderer, who travel from place to place with no permanent home in Russia. The last way shows thinking about Russian Federation in very innovative way, it is perspective of a settler. All those concepts of seeing and describing Russia is infected by an interpretation “revenge”.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 157-178
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish