Dzicy, dzieci
Children and savages

On colonial themes and the figure of the savage in Janusz Korczak’s "King Matt the First" and "King Matt on the Desert Island"

Summary/Abstract: In this text I propose to look at two texts by Janusz Korczak, "King Matt the First" and "King Matt on the Desert Island". I treat the content of these two parts of Korczak’s dilogy as a starting point for thinking about the presence of colonial themes, phantasmagorical figures of the “wild”/“savage” and the decision to introduce these themes in a book addressed to children.

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