Between Uniqueness and Universalism: an Image of Indigenous Characters. Reception of Australian Aboriginal Literature in Poland Cover Image

Między unikalnością a uniwersalizmem: obraz bohaterów aborygeńskich. Recepcja australijskiej literatury aborygeńskiej w Polsce
Between Uniqueness and Universalism: an Image of Indigenous Characters. Reception of Australian Aboriginal Literature in Poland

Author(s): Teresa Podemska-Abt
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: indigenous character; Indigenous identity; Aboriginal literature; Indigenous story; literary interpretation; literary comparison; dialogism; reception; ethics of writing and reading; Carpentaria; Alexis Wright; Lionel Fogarty; Anita Heiss

Summary/Abstract: Being a result from the 2008/9 research into interpretation of Aboriginal literature within Polish readerships, the article explores ways in which Indigenous characters are imagined and understood by Polish readers. Also, given that literatures and their characters are usually looked throughout the readers’ schemata and memory scans, it shows the dominant ways in which the Polish readers interpret and communicate with some of those characters.

  • Issue Year: 9/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 151-172
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish