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Niepełnosprawność w polskiej literaturze dla dzieci XIX wieku
Disability in Polish children’s literature of the 19th century

Author(s): Alicja Fidowicz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: children; children’s literature; disability; disability studies; modernity

Summary/Abstract: The author focuses on representations of disabled protagonists in the Polish children’s literature of the 19th century. She begins with presenting the perspective proposed by Simi Linton. In subsequent paragraphs, she analyzes selected texts of Polish children’s literature. She tries to determine the character of the 19th-century Polish culture from the perspective of the disability studies.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 111-126
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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