As the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing phenomenon that absorbs new tendencies and, at the same time, retains its centrality to Polish literature, whether written in Poland or abroad. Framing the Polish Home is a pioneering work that explores the idea of home as fundamental to the question of cultural and national identity within Poland's recent history and its tradition. In this inaugural volume of the Polish and Polish-American Studies Series, the Polish home emerges in its rich verbal and visual representations and multiple material embodiments, as the discussion moves from the loss of the home during wartime to the Sovietized politics of housing and from the exilic strategies of having a home to the the idyllic evocation of the abodes of the past. Although, as Bozena Shallcross notes in her introduction, few concepts seem to have such universal appeal as the notion of the home, this area of study is still seriously underdeveloped. In essays from sixteen scholars, Framing the Polish Home takes a significant step to correct that oversight, covering a broad range of issues pertinent to the discourse on the home and demonstrating the complexity of the home in Polish literature and culture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-13
9780821414378
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94396745
Product Key Features
Book Title
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self
Author
Bozena Shallcross
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2002
Number of Pages
378 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Bozena Shallcross
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