Discovery of Sealed Lands: The Former German Territories in Contemporary Polish Prose

Noémi Kertész

IN: Partitúra Irodalomtudományi folyóirat, Volume: XII. , Issue 1, 2017, p. 17-32., ISSN 1336-7307

DOI: 10.17846/PA.2017.12.1.17-32

Abstract:

This study analyses the literary representations of the territories attached to Poland at the end of World War II. The thematic current unfolding from the late 1980s has depicted forced migrations, the unfamiliarity of new places, the adaptation process of immigrants to their new homes and the discovery of the past in the former German territories, in the framework of biography, personal and collective memory, space and identity. Beyond the Polish-German relationship, this experience can be interpreted as a shared Central European feature.

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Partitúra is a Hungarian literary journal published in Slovakia twice a year. The first edition was issued in 2006. From 2007 to 2014 its publishers were the Faculty of Central European Studies at The Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra in cooperation with Sambucus Literary Society. Since 2014 the Faculty of Central European Studies at the CPU in Nitra became the sole publisher.

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