Polish Literature and National Identity – A Postcolonial Perspective Skorczewski

Polish Literature and National IdentityA Postcolonial Perspective\nAuthor(s): Dariusz Skorczewski, Agnieszka Polakowska\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: University of Rochester Press\nISBN-13: 9781580469784, 978-1580469784\nSynopsis\nA postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century\n\nFor nearly half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its \""civilizing\"" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics and remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. Dariusz Skorczewski is among the first scholars to apply postcolonial thought to Polish realities, at the same time modifying the theoretical framework developed by other scholars of postcolonialism. Polish Literature and National Identity reveals how the experiences of foreign domination and the history of empire have shaped contem.