Dariusz SkorczewskiPolish Literature and National Identity
A Postcolonial Perspective
Übersetzer: Polakowska, Agnieszka
Dariusz Skórczewski, Ph.D. Hab., is Assistant Professor of Polish literature at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (see Profile) where he is also head of cultural anthropology program in the Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Literature. In 2001-2004 and 2006-2007 as a Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow he was a visiting professor of Polish Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and University of Illinois at Chicago. He has lectured at Georgetown (USA), Toronto (Canada), Bloomington (USA), Renmin and Beijing University of Foreign Studies (China), Bochum and Köln (Germany), and at numerous academic and cultural institutions in Poland.
Prologue: How It All Began Through the Lens of Humanism, with a View to
Transcendence Postcolonialism in Poland National Identity in a Postcolonial
Framework Literature as Compensation Confronting the Romantic Legacy The
Natives' Exclusion by the Empire's Poet? (Adam Mickiewicz, The Crimean
Sonnets) Identity as an Object of Inquiry (Pawel Huelle's Castorp) The
(East-)Central European Complex (Andrzej Stasiuk, On the Road to Babadag
and Fado) Colonized Poland, Orientalized Poland: Postcolonial Theory and
the "Other Europe" Slavic Issues with Identity: Marginal Notes to Maria
Janion's Uncanny Slavdom The Melancholia of Borderlands Discourse
