Radziecki wysiłek kolonialny, czyli socrealizm jako orientalizm. Uwagi na marginesie powieści „Człowiek zmienia skórę” Brunona Jasieńskiego
The Soviet colonial effort, or socialist realism as orientalism. Notes on the margin of the novel „Man Changes His Skin” by Bruno Jasieński

Author(s): Kasper Pfeifer
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Bruno Jasieński; postcolonialism; socialist realism; gender studies
Summary/Abstract: This article describes the Soviet colonial project of the 1930s. On the example of Bruno Jasienski’s socialist realist novel Man Changes His Skin, the author analyzes the hegemonic discourse of the metropolis and various strategies of its application in Central Asia. The article focuses on such issues as the themes of Soviet mission civilisatrice, overrepresented in the work, the patriarchal entanglements of Russian colonial domination, and rule through the imposition of presence, i.e. the displacement of local issues and the appropriation/transformation of foreign geography.

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