Racist Discourse In The Interwar Literary Criticism

• Authors: Eugenia Prokop-Janiec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the Polish literary criticism, racist discourse is strictly related to nationalist discourse and principally comes to play in the mainstream of interwar nationalist literary criticism.1 This symptomatic configuration of race, nation and literature in the aesthetics of the West is conditioned – according to Anthony Appiah – by ‘the dual connection made in eighteenth and nineteenth -century thought between, on the one hand, race and nationality, and, on the other, nationality and literature. In short, the nation is the key middle term in the relations between the concept of race and the idea of literature”.

Keywords

EN

RACISM; INTERWAR; LITERARY CRITICISM

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(14)
• Pages: 591-598

Contributors

author

Eugenia Prokop-Janiec

• Wydział Polonistyki UJ, ul. Grodzka 63, Cracow, Poland