O jednym odczytaniu Song of Solomon
On one reading of the Song of Solomon

Summary/Abstract: Subject to analysis in this article will be two related texts: the novel Song of Solo-mon by Toni Morrison, published in 1977, and Ewa Łuczak’s article devoted thereto, entitled Homecoming in „Song of Solomon”: Nostalgia and the Construction ofIdentity. I would like to partially focus on examining Łuczak’s text, for whom politicaland social contexts depicted in the novel are the point of departure. Łuczakanalyses the Song of Solomon in view of the ‘discourse of home’ present in Morrison’swork, and through the category of nostalgia. In my article, I would like todraw attention to other possible interpretations of the Nobel Prize winner’s text,thus complementing the interpretation offered by Ewa Łuczak by introducingnew contexts.I propose to replace the category of nostalgia by interpreting the Song of Solomonin the light of one of the most important myths of the African diaspora, around whichthe entire novel is structured – the myth of the Flying Africans. Łuczak notes thismyth in just one sentence. Although this article contains some grounds for a polemic,I would like it to be, above all, an interesting starting point for a broader discussion of the cultural hegemony of Western readings of postcolonial literary texts.

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