Nowa Polska na pustyni i czuły kolonizator
New Poland in the desert and a tender colonizer

Two literary colonial fantasies as an (almost) pacifist plan

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines science fiction literature as one of the sources of Polish colonial discourse. Polish SF literary colonies are not only the result of the intense ideological activity of the Maritime and Colonial League but – like many works of literature of the interwar period – are deeply rooted in the concepts of the 19th century. The literary colonies were frequently variations on the project of rebuilding the Polish state and nation beyond the existing borders, proclaimed, among others, by Piotr Wereszczyński in the1870s. A project that, at least declaratively, was to be a kind of peaceful alternative to bloody national uprisings.

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