A Time for the Province : Palimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature / George Z. Gasyna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gasyna, George Z., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Polish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Polish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2025]

Summary:

A Time for the Province explores the culturally and symbolically important region of the Polish borderlands through the idea of the palimpsest in modern Polish provincial literature.

Contents:

Cover

A TIME FOR THE PROVINCE

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

A Note on Spelling of Place Names and Geographical Locations

Preface: The Myth of the Province

Acknowledgments

PART ONE - PARADIGMS AND AVATARS

1 Spaces and Their Necessary Theorizations

2 Polonizing - and "Humanizing" - the Other

3 Tandeta (Trash): Bruno Schulz and the Mythopoeia of Provincial Dreaming

4 The Poetics of the Borderlands: Mapping the Historical Fantasy of Ryszard Kapuscinski's Poland - Missing Pieces, Missing Persons

5 Bodies on the Frontier: Discontents of Socialist New Men in Marek Hlasko's Sudeten Mountain Fictions

PART TWO - PALIMPSEST AND CONTACT

6 Memory of, and Post-memory in, the Borderlands

7 Claiming a Home on the Border: Spaces of Hope and Sites of Memory in the Fictions of Piotr Szewc and Olga Tokarczuk

Conclusion: Writing That Flows across Borderspaces - Tokarczuk's Flights

Envoi

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780228024293

0228024293

OCLC:

1511108326