Schulzian representations of the cultural bordeland in the postcolonial perspective

• Authors: Wojda D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

It has already been indicated that Bruno Schulz's work has its root in the cultural borderland and that it undertakes the subject of the relation between the centre and the periphery. However, it has never been compared with the Polish myth of 'Kresy', in which these issues are equally important. Schulz's prose has been read as a literature lacking any distinct references to ethnic or national issues, since the mimesis of realistic representation is not found here. What occurs is the mimesis of process - imitating general cultural mechanisms, like the functioning of the centre/periphery opposition. According to the article's thesis, in Schulz's writing occurs a deconstruction of the indicated opposition: it is imitated, negated, and finally, ironically problematized. This deconstruction has been described using postcolonial categories of hybridization, mimicry and palimpsesticism.

Keywords

EN

'KRESY'   CENTRE-PERIPHERY OPPOSITION   MIMESIS   POSTCOLONIALISM   SCHULZ BRUNO  

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 4(106)
• Pages: 233-247
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Wojda D.

• D. Wojda, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, ul. Golebia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03597309