Published: 2020-11-03

Identity and freedom in postcolonial perspective – Mimesis by Paweł Huelle

Ewelina Palian­-Kobiela

Abstract

The aim of this work is to interpret – by means of the postcolonial strategy of reading – a short story titled Mimesis, published in Paweł Huelle’s collection: Opowieści chłodnego morza. This kind of interpretation reveals a choice of new perspectives, aiming at the healing of trauma by explaining the symptoms and revealing hidden facts. In Mimesis by Huelle, this happens due to the character’s narration. The author of the article presents a process of the characters identity creation during their encounters with different cultures (Huelle exemplifies a multicultural mosaic in his short story). All the way through the imagery of the characters, the author of the article enhances the main axiological features and describes the process of identity creation, thus an act of liberating oneself from restrictions of one’s own culture.

Download files

Citation rules

Palian­-Kobiela, E. (2020). Identity and freedom in postcolonial perspective – Mimesis by Paweł Huelle. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 15(1), 201–208. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10252

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2015)
Published: 2020-11-28


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

This website uses cookies for proper operation, in order to use the portal fully you must accept cookies.