Published: 2020-07-22

Alicja Iwańska’s campus novel

Anna Wal Logo ORCID

Abstract

The paper discusses the novel Baśń amerykańska [An American Fairy Tale] by Alicja Iwańska, a Polish writer and sociologist who worked at American universities for many years. The paper discusses the picture of the academic community at a state university in the USA in the 1960s and the way in which it is presented, which makes it possible to classify the text as a campus novel, which is an extremely popular genre in English-language literature. The paper also points to the author’s demythologising view of the USA, challenging the American myth characteristic of the Polish awareness.

Keywords:

campus novel , migration

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Wal, A. (2020). Alicja Iwańska’s campus novel. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 25(1), 251–260. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2020.25.18

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Olga Tokarczuk

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2020)
Published: 2020-07-30


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

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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