Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: How It All Began
- 1 Through the Lens of Humanism, with a View to Transcendence
- 2 Postcolonialism in Poland
- 3 National Identity in a Postcolonial Framework: Necessary Clarifications and Opening Suggestions
- 4 Literature as Compensation: Comprador Intelligentsia vis-à-vis the Hegemonic Discourse—Preliminary Theoretical Remarks
- 5 Confronting the Romantic Legacy
- 6 The Natives’ Exclusion by the Empire's Poet? (Adam Mickiewicz, The Crimean Sonnets)
- 7 Identity as an Object of Inquiry (Pawel Huelle's Castorp)
- 8 The (East-)Central European Complex (Andrzej Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag and Fado)
- 9 Colonized Poland, Orientalized Poland: Postcolonial Theory and the “Other Europe”
- 10 Slavic Issues with Identity: Marginal Notes to Maria Janion's Uncanny Slavdom
- 11 The Melancholia of Borderlands Discourse
- Afterword: Three Warnings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: How It All Began
- 1 Through the Lens of Humanism, with a View to Transcendence
- 2 Postcolonialism in Poland
- 3 National Identity in a Postcolonial Framework: Necessary Clarifications and Opening Suggestions
- 4 Literature as Compensation: Comprador Intelligentsia vis-à-vis the Hegemonic Discourse—Preliminary Theoretical Remarks
- 5 Confronting the Romantic Legacy
- 6 The Natives’ Exclusion by the Empire's Poet? (Adam Mickiewicz, The Crimean Sonnets)
- 7 Identity as an Object of Inquiry (Pawel Huelle's Castorp)
- 8 The (East-)Central European Complex (Andrzej Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag and Fado)
- 9 Colonized Poland, Orientalized Poland: Postcolonial Theory and the “Other Europe”
- 10 Slavic Issues with Identity: Marginal Notes to Maria Janion's Uncanny Slavdom
- 11 The Melancholia of Borderlands Discourse
- Afterword: Three Warnings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Polish Literature and National IdentityA Postcolonial Landscape, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020