POLISH EAST-BORDERLAND DISCOURSE IN NON-FICTION INTERWAR RECORDS. AN ATTEMPT AT READING IN A POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVE (Polski dyskurs kresowy... Próba lektury w perspektywie 'postcolonial studies')

• Authors: Gosk Hanna
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This text discusses selected interwar reportages, recollections, essayistic-recollective records devoted to the issues of eastern provinces of the 2nd Polish Republic (the East Borderland; in Polish - 'Kresy'). Reading of these texts is done in a postcolonial studies perspective, which enabled to show how the Polish dominating discourse of the period functioned - i.e. one establishing a naturalised form of representation and a scale of values in a non-fictional record on those lands. Analysis has shown that the interwar-period East-Borderland discourse, as may be found in these evoked texts, reveals traits of a coloniser's discourse as well as those of discourse of the former colonised, i.e. a post-dependence discourse (related to a situation of freeing from Partitions-related dependence).

Keywords

EN

'KRESY'; HISTORIOGRAPHY.; POLISH HISTORY (INTERWAR PERIOD); POSTCOLONIALISM

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: 20-34
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gosk Hanna

• Hanna Gosk, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydzial Polonistyki, Zaklad Literatury Polskiej XX Wieku, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA05617