Published: 2020-09-09

Caricatural borderlands. “Post-German lands” in Ziemowit Szczerek’s texts

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Abstract

The paper discusses the representation of the so-called Regained Territories in reportage and novels by Ziemowit Szczerek. The aim of the paper is to identify the ways of creating a caricatural imaginary geography of the Polish-German borderlands which Szczerek calls “Poniemiecja” [“Post-German lands”]. An analysis of the source material made it possible to determine the functions of the borderlands theme in Szczerek’s works (demythologisation, deheroisation, confrontation). The paper also presents strategies of revising the pioneer myth of the so-called Regained Territories and of representing the Polish-German relations in Szczerek’s works of fiction and non-fiction.

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Gieba, K. (2020). Caricatural borderlands. “Post-German lands” in Ziemowit Szczerek’s texts. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 23(1), 105–118. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9781

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2019)
Published: 2020-10-26


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

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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