Radziecki wysiłek kolonialny, czyli socrealizm i orientalizm. Uwagi na marginesach powieści Człowiek zmienia skórę Brunona Jasieńskiego
Soviet colonial effort, i.e. socialist realism and orientalism. Notes on the margins of the novel The Man Changes His Skin by Bruno Jasieński

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the Soviet colonial project of the 1930s and the accompanying devices of knowledge/power. Based on the example of the socialist realist novel by Bruno Jasieński, Man Changes His Skin, the author analyses the hegemonic discourse of metropolis, focusing on issues such as the Soviet mission civilisatrice overrepresented in the novel, the genderization of the Russian’s colonial dominance and the problem of ruling a subordinate territory by imposing the presence of an empire on the dominated area, i.e. displacing native symbols and appropriating and transforming local geography (cartography, architecture and urban planning) according to political interests of the empire.

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