Mikolajewski Disenchanted Europeans

Polish Émigré Writers from Kultura and Postwar Reformulations of the West
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78874-187-3
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 482 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Exile Studies

As Europe experienced tumultuous change after the Second World War, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski (1893–1969) and Andrzej Bobkowski (1913–1961), discussed and redefined their ideas of the continent in the pages of Kultura, the Polish émigré review. Highlighting the changes in their writings about «the West», «the East» and «civilization», this book pieces together the evolution of their own self-understanding as Europeans, the overlooked shifts of accents along with silences and falsifications. By following these two writers’ accounts of the events that led them from Poland and Ukraine to France, West Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Latin America, this study shows the tension between changing discourses and individual lives, between the wider concept of Europe and the experience of exile, emigration and belonging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikolajewski, Lukasz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS: What About Us? Polish Exiles from Kultura and the European Dilemma - Changing Images of Europe in the Writings of Stempowski: A General Overview - Anger and Disenchantment with the West: Jerzy Stempowski as a Political Exile - An Eastern European Writing about Germany and Austria in 1945 - Metaphors of Provincialization: Postwar Essays on Europe - Continuity and Rupture: Classical Self-Fashioning and Farewells to Europe - Personal Rebellion against Europe: Autobiographical Texts from 1945 to 1955 - Reassessments of Occidentalism in Sketches with a Quill - Obliterating Interwar Europeanism: Postwar Corrections in Sketches with a Quill - From Distant Lands: Travels to America in Kultura - Occidentalism and Its Discontents.

Über Autor(innen)

Lukasz Mikolajewski is a junior professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, specializing in intellectual history. He wrote his doctoral thesis at the European University Institute.