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(State) Authority and Immigrant Life in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game

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Macura-Nnamdi E.

Świat i Słowo

2016

vol. 14

issue (2) 27

111-122

This paper offers a reading of Rawi Hage’s novel De Niro’s Game (2008) as engag- ing with the questions of immigration, displacement and the role of authority in the production and maintenance of the national space. Drawing on the theoretical work by Etienne Balibar, Wendy Brown and Judith Butler, I argue that territorial thinking underlies not only nationalist interpellations (it is in fact necessary for interpellation to take place) but also humanitarian actions and sentiments which turn out to be propelled – against all odds – by a similar kind of logic that underlies national authority.

Literatura – peryferie – postkolonializm

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Kopczyk M., Macura-Nnamdi E., Markiewka T.

Świat i Słowo

2016

vol. 14

issue (2) 27

9-11

This short essay introduces the new issue of the journal “Świat i Słowo”. Post- colonialism as a methodology of studying social and cultural phenomena and their literary representations has proved to be very inspiring in the study of the tensions between centres and peripheries and the search for the voice of subalterns. In the age of globalization, perhaps paradoxically, the postcolonial discourse proves to be particularly revealing in the study of European / Central European power relations whose effect is the marginalization and deformation of minor / peripheral cultures dominated by central (and centralized) discourses which focus on the production of the “master narratives” of mythologized nationalisms. In the contemporary context such narratives prove to be a burden which needs to be addressed and deconstructed.

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(State) Authority and Immigrant Life in Rawi Hage’s De Niro’s Game

Literatura – peryferie – postkolonializm