Adam Fiala’s literary and non-literary portrayals of Australia. Positioning the Polish migrant-writer within Australian socioliterary discourses Cover Image

Wizerunki Australii w twórczości i doświadczeniu migracyjnym Adama Fiali. Sytuacja pisarza polskiego na emigracji w Australii
Adam Fiala’s literary and non-literary portrayals of Australia. Positioning the Polish migrant-writer within Australian socioliterary discourses

Author(s): Teresa Podemska-Abt
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Adam Fiala; Polish migrant literature in Australia; multiculturalism

Summary/Abstract: Along the lines of the so-called multicultural discourse and socio-political milieu in Australia, the article is concerned with Adam Fiala’s literary and non-literary imageries of Australia and also deals with the relation of Fiala’s poetic and prose themes to various realities of Australia. Given that Australia as a host country determines/influences writers’ life and work, the article seeks to discover possible spaces in which the Polish writer-migrant/his work and his characters/narrators/voices are positioned (and/or positioning themselves) to function and/or to domesticate Australia. Both the Polish writer-migrant’s life in Australia and his literary scenarios are explained with some thought of migrancy and migrant/border narrative’ notions.

  • Issue Year: 17/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 33-59
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish