„Retro-rewolucja”
Retro-revolution

Students' fight for freedom and fortune of Polish counter-culture

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the circumstances of introducing the notion of post-modernism to the Polish criticism and literary theory in the early 1990s. Concepts deriving from the experience of the French student revolution of 1968 which were later broadly defined as post-structuralism, were adopted by us in shape given at American universities: pragmatised and devoid of the typical political and moral edge. The Neo avant-garde element of art, its social commitment and emancipation-oriented criticism, was included in literary criticism as impossible to distinguish from more general conditions of post-modernity, which relativised its social consequences. Meanwhile, at the turn of 1980s and 1990s in Poland, there were many phenomena that originated from the alternative, underground art of the 1980s.

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