Cenzura wobec tematu II wojny światowej w literaturze polskiej w latach 1944-1990. Stan badań i perspektywy badawcze
Censorship in Polish Literature on World War II, 1944-1990: State of Research and Research Perspectives
Author(s): Kamila BudrowskaSubject(s): Polish Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: censorship; communism; Polish literature from 1944-1990; World War II; Polish People’s Republic;
Summary/Abstract: Budrowska outlines the research on the censorship of Polish literature thematising World War II between 1944 and 1990. She demonstrates that censorship deeply modified the image of World War II, eliminating certain topics (Polish-Soviet relations, the Holocaust), ways of presentation (“excessive” pessimism, naturalism) as well as individual texts (still unpublished but preserved in archives). A comprehensive monograph on this topic is needed to take into account the chronological, genre and thematic divisions and to describe the different instances of control. Budrowska also proposes several methodological approaches that could give a new impulse to such research: totalitarian, transnational, postcolonial and minority narrative perspectives.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 181-197
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
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