Postkolonialna lekcja uważności
Lessons in Postcolonial Awareness

Summary/Abstract: A special focus on the consequences of colonialism, what the author calls postcolonial awareness, is required because of the importance and timeliness of this legacy in the contemporary world. Postcolonial literature is tasked in this context with recording the traces of cultures either disappearing or already lost due to the actions of colonizing powers. The author discusses examples of literary texts that fulfill this function through various forms of narration and imaging. In the novel Tracks by Louise Erdrich we find an approximation of the way of life of the Chippewas, before they were confined in reserves, in the narrative of Nanapush which is addressed to his granddaughter. In the text of the Cameroonian writer Leonora Miano, La saison de lombre, we can “listen” to voices that record the experience of being abducted and taken into slavery. Richard Flanagan, in turn, recalls the traumatic experience of the loss of life, land, and culture during the colonial genocide in Tasmania, and one of the last testimonies relating to these experiences is that of an Aboriginal girl, one of the heroines of the novel Wanting.

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