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Tytuł:
Postkolonialne dzieci francuskojęzycznej literatury afrykańskiej
Postcolonial Children of the Francophone African Literature
Autorzy:
Kalinowska, Ewa
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/522738.pdf
Data publikacji:
2018
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Warszawski. Katedra Języków i Kultur Afryki. Polskie Towarzystwo Afrykanistyczne
Tematy:
African literature
Francophone literature
Postcolonial literature
Opis:
The article presents a condensed synopsis of the francophone literature of Africa and then focuses on its main subject: French-language literary creations by African authors, publishing since 1990 and called the “children of postcolony”. The essay by Abdourahman A.Waberi (« Les enfants de la postcolonie: esquisse d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains francophones d’Afrique noire », Notre Librairie, 1998) was our starting point for an in-depth analysis, leading to a balanced presentation of the postcolonial children’s generation.
Źródło:
Afryka; 2018, 48; 29-48
1234-0278
Pojawia się w:
Afryka
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
„I Have Known Rivers”: Traumatic Memory and the Postcolonial Kunstlerroman: A Reading of Paule Marshall’s Triangular Road
Autorzy:
Fondo, Blossom
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/578889.pdf
Data publikacji:
2013
Wydawca:
Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Tematy:
kunstlerroman
bildungsroman
memory
postcolonial literature
Opis:
The kunstlerroman or „artist novel” unlike the related bildungsroman (novel of growth and development) has not received wide critical attention. Yet it may be interesting in the study of the novel to engage with sub-genres such as the kunstlerroman, especially since it traces the development of the artist, his/her arts and perspective. This paper is interested in exploring the kunstlerroman from a postcolonial viewpoint. Specifically, this paper focuses on how a memory of traumatic events and experiences contribute in the development of Paule Marshall’s artistic skill as expressed in her novel Triangular Road. It therefore engages with issues such as the place of individual and collective traumatic memory, the question of apprenticeship and how it is played out in the postcolonial variant of the kunsttlerroman. It is also focused on how different the postcolonial kunstlerroman is different from the European version and what explains this difference. The main argument is that Marshall’s Triangular Road is a postcolonial kunstlerroman which traces her growth and development to artistic maturity, guided by her apprenticeship and against a backdrop of intrusive memories of the traumas and pains of her people. Therefore it insists that the postcolonial artist unlike those of the colonizing countries is largely influenced and formed by a series of traumatic events whose memories are triggered by „trauma buttons” and which push them in the present to pick up their pens. It underlines the fact that there is a close relationship between trauma, memory and the artistic development of Paule Marshall as expressed in Triangular Road which this paper considers as the postcolonial kunstlerroman par excellence.
Źródło:
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich; 2013, 56/111 z. 1; 25-38
0084-4446
Pojawia się w:
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
The transformations of the Model Reader and the translation shifts
Przeobrażenia czytelnika modelowego i przesunięcia tłumaczeniowe
Autorzy:
Wilkos, Aleksandra
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/964044.pdf
Data publikacji:
2016
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Tematy:
translation studies
Model Reader
translation shifts
postcolonial literature
Opis:
The aim of this publication is to analyze the transformation of the Model Reader and translation shifts, using the example of three selected post-colonial pieces of writing, in Polish translation from Portuguese. An analysis of the shifts enables one to observe changes occurring between the Model Reader of the original and the Model Reader of the output text.
Źródło:
Studia Europaea Gnesnensia; 2016, 14; 121-141
2082-5951
Pojawia się w:
Studia Europaea Gnesnensia
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Mitizzazione, rappresentazione e strumentalizzazione del fiume ne Il comandante del fiume di Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
Mythization, representation and exploitation of the river in Il comandante del fiume by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah
Autorzy:
Kornacka, Barbara
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/43665616.pdf
Data publikacji:
2022
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Tematy:
Ali Farah
italian postcolonial literature
river
myth
nature
environment
Opis:
The aim of the article is to analyze the motif of the river in the novel Il comandante del fiume by Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, which appears on three planes: the level of the myth, of the representation and of the literary device. The use of the river motif demonstrates its literary potential. Furthermore, the river con- firms that the two cultures involved in postcolonial literature yield a new quality due to the acceptance and inclusion of diversity. It also affirms the writer’s autonomy from both her Somali and Italian roots. Finally, the river is established as an indispensable element for the exposition and understanding of the theme dealt by this Bildungsroman.
Źródło:
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; 2022, 49, 3; 105-120
0137-2475
2084-4158
Pojawia się w:
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Life as Fiction: the Autofictional Turn in Women’s Writing of the Maghreb
Autorzy:
Ali, Nancy Nabil
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/606217.pdf
Data publikacji:
2016
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Tematy:
autobiography
autofiction
collective autobiography
storytellers
postcolonial literature
feminisation of history
Opis:
Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.
The twentieth century witnessed the birth of a feminine strand of autofictional writing coming from the ancient colonies, of which Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade, by the francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, and the Arabic Memory in the flesh, by the Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi, are emblematic. Whether it be in the Arabic or French language, the women writers of the Maghreb risked writing an autobiography in a culture that stresses the anonymity of women. The coming to writing for these women is often accompanied by a desire – or necessity – to revisit the collective past from a female perspective. For these women, literary writing also meant writing their stories on the palimpsest of dominant history, in order to carve their place in it. To fight the forced amnesia of historical discourse constructed by man, they must create works that give voice to the stories silenced by the totalizing male narrative. Djebar and Mosteghanemi both insist that the emancipation of women is possible only if the subaltern woman becomes subject not object of her story/history.
Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.
Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке
Źródło:
Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature; 2016, 40, 2
0137-4699
Pojawia się w:
Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
The Fading Revolutionary Capacity of the Zombi. The Transformation of Zombis’ Symbolism in Haitian Literature as Exemplified by the Novels of Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens
Autorzy:
Poręba, Izabela
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/27322308.pdf
Data publikacji:
2023-12-15
Wydawca:
Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
Tematy:
zombi
zombie
Haiti
subversion
Dany Laferrière
Yanick Lahens
postcolonial literature
Opis:
Zombis, unlike the zombies prevalent in American pop culture, function in Haitian culture as complex symbols with historically variable meanings – initially depicting the process of enslavement during the transatlantic slave trade, they increasingly became symbols of Haitian revolutions and resistance. This dialectical doubling of the meaning of zombis can still be found in Dany Laferrière’s novel Pays sans chapeau, published in 1996. The article reconstructs the origin of zombis, presents a discussion on the meaning of this figure, including dialectical views, and discusses their fictional depictions. The aim of the article is to investigate whether zombis still have a twofold symbolism in narrative, as symbols of both enslavement and revolutionary resistance. By considering the vestigial reminiscences of zombis in Yanick Lahens’ novel Douces déroutes, attention is drawn to the processes of gradual loss of zombis’ ambivalence and their importance as means of creating Haitian identity and everyday experience. According to the study’s conclusions, their absence (or their residual forms) in the novel of the second decade of the 21st century is as significant and interesting as their vitality and omnipresence in the works of writers of previous generations.
Źródło:
Academic Journal of Modern Philology; 2023, 19; 271-282
2299-7164
2353-3218
Pojawia się w:
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Joseph Conrad in the light of postcolonialism
Autorzy:
Vogel, Daniel
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/638822.pdf
Data publikacji:
2012
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Tematy:
An Outpost of Progress, colonial literature, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Congo, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, postcolonial literature, postcolonial studies, postcolonialism, racism
Opis:
This article consists of two parts. The first part presents the main concepts and facts connected with the development of postcolonial studies as a relatively new academic discipline, while the second part discusses Conrad’s two ‘African’ works, which - containing as they do an implicit critique of colonialism and imperialism - are now seen as being one of the very first ‘postcolonial’ books. Over the last thirty years, postcolonial studies have not only gained the status of an academic discipline, but have become one of the main schools of literary criticism. The postcolonial approach is also critical towards those systems of presenting the world that have existed for decades and have thus come to be regarded as being natural; it undermines their position and shows that they are nothing but ideological discourses which have been created by world empires. To a great extent, postcolonial theory has relied on existing theories for its methodology and terminology. On the one hand it relies on Marxism, while on the other it leans towards poststructuralism and postmodernism. Postcolonial theory also participates in discussions concerning the position of the Other (Spivak). As well as outlining the framework of postcolonial theory, it is important that we define such terms as ‘colonial’ and ‘postcolonial’ literature. In her book entitled Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction (1995), Elleke Boehmer suggests limiting the field of research in order to concentrate on the modern colonial empires that have emerged over the last four or five centuries, laying particular emphasis on the British Empire, as it was here that the greatest textualization of the idea of colonial expansion took place. The terms ‘colonial’ and ‘post-colonial’ are understood differently in The Empire Writes Back (1989), whose authors (Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin) suggest that the the term ‘post-colonial’ should refer to all cultures affected by imperial expansion - from the beginnings of colonization to the present day - arguing that the expansion of colonial empires in previous centuries exerted a considerable influence on historical processes that have lasted down to our own times. Because these definitions of post(-)colonial literature do not encompass such phenomena as the literatures of multicultural metropolies or literatures going beyond the realm of the English language or beyond the literature of British or French colonialism, critics now often prefer to use expressions such as ‘literature in English’, ‘French-language literature’ or ‘literature of the Caribbean’ (which indicate the language or the region where a given type of literature has emerged) instead of the term ‘postcolonial literature’. Most contemporary scholars see Conrad as being one of the first postcolonial writers - someone who criticized the ruthless colonial expansion of European empires and the concept of the “White Man’s Burden”. The works which attract particular attention are, of course, those which relate to Conrad’s African experience: An Outpost of Progress and the excellent, albeit overexploited novella Heart of Darkness, which - despite its having been mentioned and referred to so many times by postcolonial critics - still evokes a great deal of controversy. In 1975 the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe famously declared Joseph Conrad to be “a bloody racist”. Since the publication of Achebe’s An image of Africa many scholars have defended the position of Conrad as one of the chief opponents of colonialism, stressing the fictitious nature of Heart of Darkness, its experimental narration and its metaphorical and symbolic character. This controversy has by no means been laid to rest.
Źródło:
Yearbook of Conrad Studies; 2012, 7
2084-3941
Pojawia się w:
Yearbook of Conrad Studies
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
„Tradycyjni” czy „nowocześni”? O metodologicznych dylematach współczesnych badaczy staropolszczyzny. Część pierwsza: uwagi ogólne i przypadek krytyki postkolonialnej
Autorzy:
Oczko, Piotr
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/636251.pdf
Data publikacji:
2013
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Tematy:
modern literary theories, Old Polish literature, postcolonial criticism
Opis:
“Traditional” or “Modern”? Methodological Dilemmas of the Contemporary Researchers of Old Polish Literature. Part One: General Remarks and the Case of Postcolonial CriticismThis paper shows the personal reflection of its authors upon the methodological contexts of cultural and literary studies concerning Old Polish literature. Especially those contexts that eagerly and sophisticatedly – though quite superficially – apply the so called “modern” literary theories to the analyses and interpretations of Old Polish texts and – at the same time – disregard their very historical backgrounds. The authors present a fairly sceptical approach towards the blind and unjustifiable, although fashionable, application of “modern” criticism in the given field of research. Instead they emphasise the contextual, secondary character of the possible modern theoretical implications, as  well as the particular, specific character of Old Polish writings. Moreover, wider social factors influencing the methodological decisions taken by the academic community in question (who undoubtedly still favour the traditional, philological method of research and strongly distances itself from the contemporary theoretical thought) have been discussed in great detail. The enclosed analysis of the recent controversial book Fantomowe ciało króla (The Phantom Body of a King, 2011) by Jan Sowa, which deals with the Old Polish history, society, and culture, strongly influenced by the application of modern criticism, in particular the postcolonial part of it, served both as an example of the authors’ argumentation and, at the same time, a warning.
Źródło:
Terminus; 2013, 15, 3(28)
2084-3844
Pojawia się w:
Terminus
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
What’s past is prologue: the Age of Caliban
Autorzy:
Kowalcze-Pawlik, Anna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/638715.pdf
Data publikacji:
2011
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Jagielloński. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Tematy:
Shakespeare, Caliban, Prospero, monstrosity, bestial man, reception history, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, Renaissance literature, English drama
Opis:
The article provides a brief comparative study of the reception history of Shakespeare’s Caliban in the early modern period and in the contemporary literary criticism. The analysis aims to delineate a fundamental difference in the reception of the character of Caliban throughout the ages which I attribute to a historical shift in the understanding of the notions of humanity and monstrosity. The first part of the article concentrates on the description of the historical and social circumstances of the Elizabethan discourse of monstrosity and draws a link between them and the literary and political context of the time, while engaging into a close reading of The Tempest that brings to the fore the origin and nature of the “servant-monster”. The second part of the paper focuses on the gradual change in the interpretations of Caliban who ceased to be seen as a monstrosity and with time acquired undeniably human characteristics. That shift has been observable since the 19th century and has found its culmination in the postcolonial strain of Caliban’s contemporary interpretations, in which Prospero’s slave becomes a native trying to find a language for himself in a colonial regime his body and mind are subjugated to. The postcolonial project of the unfinished monstrous humanity of Sycorax’s son is congruous with the postmodern condition that can be dubbed, to use Harold Bloom’s phrase, “the Age of Caliban”. It is exactly that liminal and paradoxical notion of monstrous humanity that resides at the core of the contemporary fascination with “Monsieur Monster”.
Źródło:
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis; 2011, 6, 1
2084-3933
Pojawia się w:
Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Dialogue de la littérature et la peinture dans Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement d’Assia Djebar
A dialogue with painting in Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Assia Djebar
Autorzy:
Gubińska, Maria
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/483459.pdf
Data publikacji:
2016
Wydawca:
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Wydawnictwo Werset
Tematy:
Assia Djebar
hybrydity postcolonial
Francophone literature
Opis:
The paper presents the phenomenon of hybridity present in Assia Djebar’s writings based on the example of the collection of short stories entitled Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement (Women of Algiers in Their Apartment). The title of the collection makes reference to famous paintings by Delacroix and Picasso but in doing so the author also supplements the Europocentric discourse with her own voice, the voice of a Francophone Algerian writer who, holding a dialogue with the painters, breaks with exoticism and the orientalising European approach. The dialogue with painting is accomplished on two levels; the first, diegetic and second, essayistic; in ‘The Overture’, and especially in ‘The Afterword’, which is not only a commentary to the painting works by Delacroix and Picasso, but also a complementation of the literary plot. The permanent link of Djebar’s writings to the dramatic present and the remembrance of the women deprived of their voice and subjected to reification is voiced powerfully in the work, which cannot be easily evaluated as it is very diverse in its references to other fields of art.
Źródło:
Quêtes littéraires; 2016, 6; 100-107
2084-8099
2657-487X
Pojawia się w:
Quêtes littéraires
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Obrazy miast afrykańskich w twórczości postkolonialnych pisarzy
Images of African Cities in the Works of Postcolonial Fiction Writers
Autorzy:
Poręba, Izabela
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2015103.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021
Wydawca:
Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Oddział we Wrocławiu
Tematy:
postcolonialism
city
postcolonial city
African literature
Opis:
Representations of postcolonial African cities in contemporary literature, analysed from the perspective of postcolonial studies, allow the researcher to observe a number of phenomena: a polarization of attitudes towards the areas inhabited by literary characters, a dichotomous stratification of space, an awareness of the colonial past or deliberate actions suppressing reminiscences of colonialism, as well as the labile characteristics of the cities, with their transformations, degenerations and performativity (e.g. in the context of street names, or in the case of conceptualizing the boundaries of African countries during the Berlin Conference). These themes have been interpreted as part of a review of urban literary forms. The aim of the analysis was also to indicate the possibilities of further research on cities within postcolonial theory, which has hitherto focused rather on the issues of nativity and images of the village.
Źródło:
Academic Journal of Modern Philology; 2021, 11; 153-166
2299-7164
2353-3218
Pojawia się w:
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Między ratio a emotum. Polsko-rosyjskie postrzeganie wzajemne w perspektywie binarnej
Between ratio and emotum. Polish-Russian mutual perception in a binary perspective
Autorzy:
Nakoneczny, Tomasz
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1806988.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021-10-14
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Tematy:
rationality
binarity
stereotypes
literature
postcolonial studies
Polska
Russia
Opis:
A characteristic feature of Polish-Russian mutual perception is binarity, manifesting itself in various discursive spaces, from colloquial stereotypes, through popular literature, to sophisticated forms of meta-historical discourse. Asian-Europeanness, Latin-Byzantism/Orthodoxy, collectivism-individualism, and authenticity-falsehood, are just some of the oppositions that organise the social imagination of Poles and Russians in the sphere of their mutual assessments and opinions. The article draws attention to the partial manifestations of such oppositions (literary discourse, postcolonial studies, etc.) in order to show their hidden, dialectical dimension. To achieve this goal, the author refers to the category of ratio and emotum, which refers to a specific current of the European philosophical tradition. Both of these binary categories are the foundation for creating an image of the Other. They also fit into self-defining strategies important for understanding Polish and Russian identity.
Źródło:
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia; 2021, 46, 2; 147-162
0081-6884
Pojawia się w:
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Vis-à-vis pamięci narodu. Miasto postkolonialne – rekapitulacja stanowisk
Vis-à-vis the Memory of the Nation. Postcolonial City – Recapitulation
Autorzy:
Poręba, Izabela
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2011026.pdf
Data publikacji:
2021
Wydawca:
Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
Tematy:
postcolonial city
city anthropology
center-periphery
postcolonialism
world literature
Opis:
Izabela Poręba in the paper Vis-à-vis pamięci narodu. Miasto postkolonialne – rekapitulacja stanowisk (Vis-à-vis the Memory of the Nation. Postcolonial City – Recapitulation) presents different ways of understanding the term “postcolonial city”. She analyses in this scope identity representations in urban spatial, ethical reservations considering adopting modal framework which was mentioned and relations between centre and periphery – designated due a to two-fold reference (inside and outside a country), which is distinctive for ex-colonial cities (and their inhabitants). Definitions of “postcolonial city” by Nausheen H. Anwar, Bill Ashcroft, Katie Beswick, Maya Parmar, Esha Sil, A.D. King, Agata Lisiak and David Simon discussed in the chapter allow to capture problematic nature of the term itself and its concretization as well. This problematic nature is one of founder stones of discursive marginality of urban themes compered to rural areas analysis. The author points out, recalling works by Irena Bukowska-Floreńska parallelism in the history of Polish ethnological studies, in which direct turn towards urban themes may be dated only in the second half of XX century. The aim of the chapter is to explain reasons of this disproportion in the field of postcolonial studies. The author recalls discourses concerning cities in methodological frame of postcolonialism and research findings from ethnology, anthropology (especially of the city), cultural theory and social-economic geography (human geography) and therefore extracts three arguments explaining the disproportion between city and nonurban areas analysis: 1) ethical assumptions connected with postcolonial methodology itself; 2) cognitive mistakes, which are leading to misbelief that there is not enough research material regarding cities in the countries of so called Third World (belief about their non-urbanization); and 3) distance from the position of recognition of a city as a “microcosm of the society” (signalized as the generalizing structure by Manuel Castells and Kacper Pobłocki). The author suggests twofold procedure in connection with depicted category: departure from theorizing about abstractive “postcolonial city” sui generis and at the meanwhile focusing our attention on urban themes in postcolonial studies at the level of praxis, for e.g. on analysis of specific, historically and geographically concretized spaces or literary transformations of these places.
Źródło:
Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media; 2021, 7, 1; 155-173
2719-8278
Pojawia się w:
Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
Ashapurna Devi’s “Women” – Emerging Identities in Colonial and Postcolonial Bengal
Kobiety w pisarwstwie Ashapurny Devi – wyłanianie się nowych tożsamości w kolonialnym i postkolonialnym Bengalu.
Autorzy:
Chattopadhyay, Suchorita
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/437325.pdf
Data publikacji:
2012
Wydawca:
Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie. Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii
Tematy:
Ashapurna Devi
Bengali literature
identity
postcolonial studies
subaltern studies
Opis:
Ashapurna Devi, a prominent Bengali woman novelist (1909–1995) focused on women’s creativity and enlightenment during the colonial and postcolonial period in Bengal, India. She herself displayed immense will power, tenacity and an indomitable spirit which enabled her to eke out a prominent place for herself in the world of creative writing. Her life spanned both colonial India and independent India and these diverse experiences shaped her mind and persona and helped her to portray the emerging face of the enlightened Bengali middle-class woman. Her writings trace the evolution of the Bengali woman as an enlightened and empowered individual struggling against the shackles of discriminatory norms imposed upon her by society. She traces the extremely conservative upbringing that the female members of her generation were subjected to and goes on to show how different individuals responded to these structures in different ways. Some would comply unquestioningly, some would comply simply because they did not dare to protest, while others would break free and find their own niche in the outside world. These issues are addressed by Ashapurna Devi in many short stories as well, but a critical analysis of her trilogy Pratham Pratisruti (1964), Subarnalata (1967) and Bokulkatha (1974) enables us to experience this struggle against a gradually unfolding backdrop where India moves on from being a British colony to an independent country. The trilogy traces the life of three generations of a family — Satyabati, Subarna and finally Bokul and establishes Ashapurna Devi as a path-breaking champion of women’s emancipation in an era when such endeavours were few and far between.
Źródło:
ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal; 2012, 2, 1; 75-95
2083-6635
2084-1043
Pojawia się w:
ARGUMENT: Biannual Philosophical Journal
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
Tytuł:
“Wildness” as a metaphor for self-definition of the colonised subject in the Positivist period in Poland
Autorzy:
Kołos, Anna
Powiązania:
https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/628323.pdf
Data publikacji:
2011
Wydawca:
Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Tematy:
Poland, Prussia, Eastern Europe, Ludwik Powidaj, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Maria Konopnicka, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Henryk Sienkiewicz, literature, positivism, postcolonial theory, orientalisation, otherness, wildness, civilisation
Opis:
This article discusses the question of the Polish nation's self-definition in the Positivist period both in belles-lettres and in journalism, which were dependent to a great extent on the colonial discourse. It is argued that crucial metaphors of “wildness,” “savageness” or “backwardness” stem from orientalising labels created by the colonisers. Examination of this issue requires some basic introduction to historical and anthropological ideas which date back to the Age of Enlightenment. The aim of this paper is to shed light – by analysing literature examples such as Ludwik Powidaj, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Maria Konopnicka, Eliza Orzeszkowa and Henryk Sienkiewicz – on the so called “colonial trauma” that has condemned the Polish image to resentful ideology. Furthermore, the paper will provide arguments in favour of subscribing to the postcolonial studies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Źródło:
Journal of Education Culture and Society; 2011, 2, 1; 81-95
2081-1640
Pojawia się w:
Journal of Education Culture and Society
Dostawca treści:
Biblioteka Nauki
Artykuł
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