Awards

• Short-listed for Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume awarded by AATSEEL 2019 (United States)
• Winner of Best Edited Multi-Author Scholarly Volume awarded by AATSEEL 2019 (United States)

Overview

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland’s return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland’s cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland’s modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film. Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.

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Author:   Tamara Trojanowska ,  Joanna Nizynska ,  Przemyslaw Czaplinski ,  Agnieszka Polakowska
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.520kg
ISBN:  

9781487524593

ISBN 10:   1487524595
Pages:   856
Publication Date:   08 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Transitions 2. Strategies 3. Transmissions 4. Genres and Their Discontents 5. Postwar and Post-1989 Drama 6. Essay 7. Diaries 8. Reportage 9. Literary Theory 10. Film 11. Popular Culture 12. Mass Media

Reviews

Although designed to cater to the needs of students of Polish studies and literature, this volume will also be of great use to all scholars interested in central and eastern European history, culture, and literature, and indeed to the general public. -- Aleksandra Witczak Haugstad, Research Council of Norway * H-Net Reviews (H-Poland) *

Author Information

Tamara Trojanowska is Director for the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, and an associate professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Toronto. Joanna Niżyńska is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic & East European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Przemysław Czapliński is a professor of Polish literature at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland. Agnieszka Polakowska works as an editor and a translator (Polish to English). Her past projects include academic essay collections, articles, doctoral dissertations, and personal memoirs. She holds two Master degrees (in English and in Polish Literature) from the University of Toronto.

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