Journal article

Herberta antyk postkolonialny i nacjonalizm defensywny (Herbert’s Postcolonial Antiquity and Defensive Nationalism)


Authors list: Uffelmann, Dirk

Publication year: 2017

Pages: 27-43

Journal: Roczniki humanistyczne = Annales de lettres et sciences humaines = Annals of arts

Volume number: 65

Issue number: 1

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.18290/rh.2017.65.1-3

Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II


Abstract: 

This article proposes a postcolonial reading of antiquity motifs from Zbigniew Herbert’s poems. References to ancient history, mythology, and biblical allusions are interpreted as allegories of the political culture in the Polish People’s Republic. While Herbert depicts communism as an attempt at colonization, in his poems the focus lies mainly on the internal effects for the colonized mind. The article rounds off with connecting Herbert’s attitude with defensive nationalism and proposing recent right-wing tendencies in the Polish appropriation of postcolonial theory as a heuristic model for understanding Herbert’s civil position during communism.




Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2017) Herberta antyk postkolonialny i nacjonalizm defensywny (Herbert’s Postcolonial Antiquity and Defensive Nationalism), Roczniki humanistyczne = Annales de lettres et sciences humaines = Annals of arts, 65(1), pp. 27-43. https://doi.org/10.18290/rh.2017.65.1-3

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2017). Herberta antyk postkolonialny i nacjonalizm defensywny (Herbert’s Postcolonial Antiquity and Defensive Nationalism). Roczniki humanistyczne = Annales de lettres et sciences humaines = Annals of arts. 65(1), 27-43. https://doi.org/10.18290/rh.2017.65.1-3


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