Polish Literature and National Identity: A Postcolonial Perspective

by Dariusz Skorczewski and Agnieszka Polakowska

A postcolonial study of Polish literature from Romanticism to the twenty-first century

For nearly half a century East-Central Europe was part of the Soviet empire and was subject to its "civilizing" mission. Despite its colonial status, this part of the world has escaped the attention of most postcolonial critics and remains a blank spot in global studies of postcolonialism. Dariusz Skorczewski is among the first scholars to apply postcolonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469787
• ISBN13: 9781580469784
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"