Chiny wyobrażone – Chiny ucieleśnione. Państwo Środka w polskich i serbskich relacjach z podróży (od XVIII do połowy XX wieku)

• Authors: Karolina Galewska

Title variants

EN

China Imagined – China Embodied. The Middle Kingdom in Polish and Serbian Travel Reports (from the Eighteenth to Mid-twentieth Century)

Abstracts

EN

The article presents an overview of the issues discussed in Tomasz Ewertowski’s monograph Images of China in Polish and Serbian Travel Writings (1720–1949). It reconstructs the discourse that emerges from the journals as their authors report on their journeys to the Middle Kingdom. The article also analyses the conditioning of the presented attitudes in the context of individual experience. Using imagology-based tools, Ewertowski refers to the mental representations of reality recorded in the text in the form of stereotypically formed ethnotypes. Ewertowski creates a mosaic of the way travellers from the West imagined both Chinese cities and the characteristic features of Far Eastern culture, which is often marked by Eurocentrism and an evaluating attitude towards the Other.

Keywords

EN

travel writing; travelogue; China; imagology; ethnotype; stereotype; post-colonial criticism

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 40
• Pages: 241-253

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Karolina Galewska

• Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl.2021.40.11

Biblioteka Nauki

1532758