Heteronomia autonomii. Pole literackie i zagraniczna polityka kulturalna
The Heteronomy of Autonomy: The Literary Field and Foreign Cultural Policy

Summary/Abstract: This article introduces a research project on the relationship between literature and the mechanisms of foreign cultural policy in the context of Polish-German relations. Based on an analysis of records from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn from 1960 to 1970, Zajas asks how the political milieu at the time defined the function of culture. He juxtaposes the activities of government institutions with the perspective of agents in the literary field. For this group, data was obtained from the archive of the German publisher Siegfried Unseld, housed at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, which was made available to researchers in 2009. This archive contains records from publishers such as Suhrkamp Verlag and Insel Verlag. The metatheoretical framework chosen to position the problem of foreign cultural policy within the realm of literary studies is the polycontextual framework proposed by Gerhard Plumpe and Niels Werber.

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