WHERE ARE MY LIMITS? POST-COLONIALISM IN LITERATURE (Gdzie sa moje granice? O postkolonializmie w literaturze)

• Authors: Delaperriere Maria
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The post-colonial world outlook has created a novel research perspective enabling to renew the way literature had been viewed hitherto. Changes in approaching literary text, where the 'centre'/'peripheries' relation occurs to be relative, have not ceased taking place till this very day. This debilitation of cultural divisions conceals however a danger of chaos and uniformisation at the same time. This triggers more questions on cultural identity as a guarantee of subjective existence. A post-colonial perspective renders the 'I vs. the Other' relation a crucial one, making it the only option to self-determine. Literary text thus plays the role of not only extending a cultural identity but primarily, of making present the ego's individual limits in comparative processes. As applied to Polish literature, such approach can lead to a new balance being struck between a 'centre' and a 'periphery', owing to interactive actions.

Keywords

EN

CULTURAL IDENTITY; LITERATURE AND CULTURE; POLISH CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE; POST-COLONIALISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 6(114)
• Pages: 9-19
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Delaperriere Maria

• Maria Delaperriere, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, Paris, France

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05614