eMigrating Landscapes Seminars Events Publication
- eMigrating Landscapes: Remembering, Re-Writing, Re-Telling… The Poetry of Irit Amiel
- eMigrating Landscapes: Transgressive Identity and EU Migration in Polish and Central European Cinema
- eMigrating Landscapes: Polish Literature and Transformation
- Where the Beast is Buried - Joanna Rajkowska in conversation
- An Evening of Polish Migrating Poetry: Grzegorz Wroblewski and friends
- Ewa Lipska – an encounter with the author
- Poor but Sexy (discussing Eastern Europe)
- Café Culture: Games at the Grant
- Telling Mother Tongues. I am Polish: Meet the Artists
- “Coming Out Polish Style” by Sławomir Grüberg & Katka Reszke
eMigrating Landscapes: Polish Literature and Transformation
Publication date: Nov 08, 2013 09:44 AM
Start: Dec 09, 2013 05:00 PM
Location: Masaryk Senior Common Room, 4th Floor, SSEES
Discussion of new publication of Polish Literature in Transformation
Discussion around the new publication: Polish Literature in Transformation, edited by Ursula Phillips with the assistance of Knut Andreas Grimstad and Kris Van Heuckelom. (Polonistik im Kontext, Band 2). Berlin [et al.]: LIT Verlag, 2013, 320pp.
Consisting of a substantial introduction by the main editor and seventeen other essays, this book emerged from the conference “Polish Literature Since 1989” held at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in November 2011. It is not, however, a reflection of the conference proceedings or a collection of isolated, unrelated essays but a multi-authored volume coordinated by a single overarching theme, to which the individual authors contribute the fruits of their own detailed research into a number of sub-themes. These contributors are drawn from several different countries and scholarly traditions: Poland, Britain (England and Scotland), Germany, Scandinavia, Belgium.
The main theme of the book is the transformation, systemic and cultural, that Poland has undergone since the collapse of communism in 1989 and its reflection in literary works (mostly in prose, including memoirs and fiction, but additionally in poetry and drama) and also in the ways literary scholars have reacted to change, both in Poland and in the West: To what extent, for example, has the import of Western theory after 1989 influenced literary-cultural studies and has there been a reaction against this?
Themes addressed include: changing conceptions of Polish nationhood and identity or of so-called “Polishness”; the impact of European integration (since 2004); the effects of migration; revised conceptions of the foreign or the marginal, and new understandings of what is understood by émigré or emigrant literature; sensitivity to issues of gender and sexual identity, as well as the impact of feminism and queer studies; the huge impact of revived interest in the Jewish heritage, in Holocaust memory, and in Polish-Jewish relations.
- Presentation of the book (main editor: dr. Ursula Phillips);
- Polish literature today (among the discussants are contributors: Urszula, Chowaniec, Katarzyna Zechenter, Wioletta Grzegorzewska and Uilleam Blacker);
- Discussion will be led by dr. Tim Beasley-Murray.
For more information: www.emigratinglandscapes.org