Sammelbandbeitrag

Autorenliste: Rostek, J

Erschienen in: Polish Culture in Britain: Literature and History, 1772 to the Present

Herausgeberliste: Bowers, MA; Dew, B

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2023

Seiten: 237-258

ISBN: 978-3-031-32187-0

eISBN: 978-3-031-32188-7

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_11

Abstract: 

Extant research on how Polish migration to Britain is represented in literature often focuses on contemporary texts, sees Polish migrants as forming part of a larger, Eastern European flow of people, and uses postcolonial theories and concepts. This chapter discusses the genesis, merits, and disadvantages of such a ‘three-layered-lens’ and proposes a complementary methodology that is diachronic, focuses on Polish migration alone, and is inspired by modern imagology. While the first part of the chapter is devoted to theoretical and methodological concerns, the second performs imagological analyses of two British novels: Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) and John Lanchester’s Capital (2012). This approach reveals the surprisingly positive place the Polish migrant holds in (parts of) the British literary imaginary, which sets up a contrast between the ‘good’ Pole and an ostensibly ‘ailing’ Britain.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Rostek, J. (2023) The Good Pole in an Ailing Britain: An Imagological Approach to Polish Migration in British Literature, in Bowers, M. and Dew, B. (eds.) Polish Culture in Britain: Literature and History, 1772 to the Present . Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 237-258. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_11

APA-Zitierstil: Rostek, J. (2023). The Good Pole in an Ailing Britain: An Imagological Approach to Polish Migration in British Literature. In Bowers, M., & Dew, B. (Eds.), Polish Culture in Britain: Literature and History, 1772 to the Present (pp. 237-258). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_11