Escape Into Straddleness. On the Experience of Social Advancement in the Dissimilation Mode in the Novel Majdan by Marian Pilot Cover Image

Ucieczka w rozkraczność. O doświadczeniu awansu w trybie dysymilacyjnym w powieści Majdan Mariana Pilota
Escape Into Straddleness. On the Experience of Social Advancement in the Dissimilation Mode in the Novel Majdan by Marian Pilot

Author(s): Karolina Koprowska
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: wieś; miejsce urodzenia; awans społeczny; tożsamość; dysymilacja; Marian Pilot; village; birthplace; social advancement; identity; dissimilation

Summary/Abstract: The article sets out to investigate the experience of social advancement in the dissimilation mode, which is contrary to the assimilation. The process of becoming non-identical and affirming one’s distinctiveness is examined in reference to the novel Majdan by Marian Pilot, one of the authors of the so-called peasant current in the Polish literature. The term “rozkraczność” (“straddle-ness”) taken from Pilot’s prose is used to describe the condition of a displaced subject as persistence in a state of ambivalence between heteronomy and autonomy.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 83-99
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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