On Value Systems, Commitment and Explaining Poland in Crisis to Germans by Polish-German Writers from Berlin: Brygida Helbig-Mischewski and Emilia Smechowski Cover Image

O systemach wartości, zaangażowaniu i objaśnianiu Niemcom kryzysowej Polski przez polsko-niemieckie pisarki z Berlina: Brygidę Helbig-Mischewski i Emilię Smechowski
On Value Systems, Commitment and Explaining Poland in Crisis to Germans by Polish-German Writers from Berlin: Brygida Helbig-Mischewski and Emilia Smechowski

Author(s): Małgorzata Zduniak-Wiktorowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: crisis; Poland; Germany; migrant literature; discourse

Summary/Abstract: This essay discusses motivations and various strategies of artistic involvement in Polish-German relations on the part of female writers who come from Poland, write from Berlin and represent different generations of writers associated, by way of their biographies, with Germany and Poland (e.g., Brygida Helbig-Mischewski and Emilia Smechowski). Their writings, and modes of public activity that accompany them in both countries (e.g., voicing their positions in mainstream media) are closely related to a pan-European crisis of values triggered by Brexit and its aftermath.

  • Issue Year: 30/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 251-271
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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