From Baranowski to Baranauskas, from James to Ngũgĩ: Post-Colonial Aspects of Linguistic Switch

• Authors: Bukowiec, Paweł

Abstracts

EN

The article attempts to perform a comparative study of the phenomenon of the so-called linguistic switch, i.e., a change of languages in which the writer creates his/her works. One side of the analysis focuses on nineteenth-century Lithuanian poets, represented mainly by Antanas Baranauskas, and the other on the contemporary Kenyan prose writer Ngu˜g˜ wa Thiong’o. The juxtaposition of ı such extremely distant authors: 1. allows a better understanding of the specificity of multilingualism in both eighteenth-century Lithuanian literature and contemporary fiction; 2. proves once again the universality of postcolonial sensitivity; 3. constitutes an attempt at comparative thinking in the context of world literature.

Keywords

EN

Antanas Baranauskas; Ngu˜g˜ wa Thiong’o; multilingualism; literature and collective identity; comparatisme quand même; world literature

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Interkulturowe Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 13
• Pages: 219-245

Dates

published

2020-11-21

Contributors

author

Bukowiec, Paweł

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32346/2544-3135.si.2020-13.11