On colonial Sudan from the perspective of Sienkiewicz’s In Desert and Wilderness: Between invalidation and affirmation
Abstract
The article addresses the question of the entanglement of the novel In Desert and Wilderness in the colonial discourse concerning Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The author presents and analyses several extremely important motifs of imperial narratives reproduced by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his African novel. In addition, he argues for a new critical, commented edition that will allow pupils and students to look at the novel from the perspective of our “dream of colonialism”.
Keywords
Sienkiewicz; Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; ethnology; colonial discourse
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Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9505-7311
Maciej Kurcz, absolwent etnologii i archeologii UJ, antropolog kulturowy. Specjalizuje się w problematyce przemian kulturowych we współczesnej Afryce zarówno w aspekcie „tradycyjnych” społeczności wiejskich, jak i środowisk miejskich tego obszaru. Autor ponad 50 prac dotyczących Sudanu, w tym książek: Za trzecią kataraktą. Życie codzienne wsi północnosudańskiej (Wrocław–Kraków, PTL 2007) oraz Urban Now: a Human in the Face of Borderlineness and Urbanisation in Juba, South Sudan (Berlin, Peter Lang GmbH 2021), będących plonem badań terenowych w Sudanie i w Sudanie Południowym.
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