Choroba migrantów – literacka epikryza i patogeneza (na przykładzie narracji osadniczej i postosadniczej)
The disease of the migrants – a literary epicrisis and pathogenesis (settlement and postsettlement narratives as a case study)

Summary/Abstract: The literature that deals with the postwar settlement of the so-called ‘recovered territories’ can be read as an epicrisis recording the conditions, symptoms and the course of the disease of the migrants. The author differentiates between narratives emerging before 1989 and today. In the former, the disease constitutes a counter-myth contradicting the official ‘politics of place’ and the idea of a well functioning society-as-organism. In contemporary prose, the motif of the disease relates to the question of pathogenesis and comes to play a role in the construction of a new base story. Growing out of posttraumatic culture, the post-settlement narrative offers ways of affirming the society that inhabits the areas of north-western Poland. It can be seen as a manifestation of compensatory strategies and as a type of post-dependency discourse.

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