Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: Polish Culture in Britain. Literature and History, 1772 to the Present

Editor list: Bowers, Maggie Ann; Dew, Ben

Publication year: 2023

Pages: 209-235

ISBN: 978-3-031-32187-0

eISBN: 978-3-031-32188-7

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_10

Abstract: 

Perspectives on the lives of migrants in their host countries tend to be bicultural, which is at odds with the multi-ethnic reality of British industrial cities, especially with London’s low-paid sector. This chapter proposes migrant literature as an antidote to bicultural restrictions. It endeavours to provide a comparative reading of writings by Polish migrant authors about interactions with other migrants in Britain and other migrant writers’ perceptions of Poles. The corpus consists of post-accession texts. Given that the authors draw on diverse—Polish, British, Ukrainian, Latvian, and other Eastern European—traditions of cultural and/or economic Othering, this chapter scrutinizes both the mutual Orientalizing tendencies and the transnationalizing trajectories involved.

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2023) Poles Among Others: Literary Perspectives on Polish Migrants in Britain Since 2004, in Bowers, M. and Dew, B. (eds.) Polish Culture in Britain. Literature and History, 1772 to the Present. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-235. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_10

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2023). Poles Among Others: Literary Perspectives on Polish Migrants in Britain Since 2004. In Bowers, M., & Dew, B. (Eds.), Polish Culture in Britain. Literature and History, 1772 to the Present (pp. 209-235). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7_10