Lekcje inności i konfiskowanie pamięci. O powieści Britty Wuttke "Homunculus z tryptyku"
Lessons of otherness and confiscating memory on "Homunculus z tryptyku" a novel by Britta Wutke

Author(s): Tatiana Czerska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: novel; autobiographism; postcolonialism; frontier/borderlands; the Polish – the German
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is "Homunculus z tryptyku", a Polish-German novel written by Britta Wuttke. The author of the novel deals with the issues connected with identity, biculturalism, bilingualism and Polish-German relations after the World War II on the borderline. The article presents a critical-literary reception of the work, and its functioning in the literary circle. An anti-German discourse, inscribed into a propaganda discourse of the Polish People’s Republic, forgotten in the 1990s, where the literature made a revision of the picture of Polish-German relations, is read today in the perspective of postcolonial studies as a novel about shame, family traumas and Polish People’s Republic from the perspective of a woman, German and doctor.

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