In-Between Empire : Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland, and Colonial Travel Writing / Raymond Patton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patton, Raymond, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism.

Travel writing.

Poland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global imperial hierarchy. Leveraging this vantage point, they claimed the unique ability to represent the South to the West, constructing a Polish national identity in conversation with both imperial and anti-imperial currents, and influencing international discourse on colonialism and its legacy. Written at the nexus of historical and literary studies of imperial and colonial discourse, Patton centres Poland and Eastern Europe in debates that have frequently excluded these perspectives. Showing how these Polish writers attempted to portray anticolonial solidarity with non-European victims of colonialism, yet also employed European colonial tropes, each writer demonstrated a distinctive ability to identify the tensions and flaws of imperialism, whilst simultaneously reconciling those tensions to themselves as 'exceptional Europeans', innocent of colonialism, by alternating between metropolitan and peripheral perspectives. In doing so, they informed transnational discourses and policies on colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War and beyond.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue: Origins of the Ruse, or, Mickiewicz as an Orientalist Travel Writer

1 Playing Indian, Becoming Settler: Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Sygurd Wisniowski, and the "Vanishing Indian"

2 A Colonizing Colony? Anxiety and Exceptionalism in the Writing of Stefan Szolc-Rogozinski

3 Peripheral Feminine Critique and Exceptionalism in the Imperial Gothic Writing of Helena Janina Pajzderska (Hajota)

4 Ferdynand Ossendowski: The Promethean Gothic in Eurasia and Eurafrica

5 The Relational Transformationalism of Ksawery Pruszynski

6 The Colonial Anti-Colonialism of Ryszard Kapuscinski

Epilogue and Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350503519

1350503517

9781350498662

1350498661

9781350498655

1350498653

OCLC:

1458758973