Podlasie's Localness in Sociological, Magical and Satirical Narratives Cover Image

Podlaska lokalność w narracjach socjologicznych, magicznych i satyrycznych
Podlasie's Localness in Sociological, Magical and Satirical Narratives

Author(s): Elżbieta Konończuk
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: geopoetics; new regionalism; autobiogrphical places; local narratives; city space; Podlasie

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the local narratives of the Podlasie region as represented by Edward Redliński, Sokrat Janowicz, Michał Androsiuk, Jan Kamiński and Ignacy Karpowicz. The author presents the transformations of tendencies in the Podlasie prose of the latest half-century, from the poetics of sociological document to the poetics of grotesque and magical realism, interpreting these transformations as characteristic of new regionalism

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 141-156
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish