Friday, 3 May 2019, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College, 海角社区
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海角社区 Polish Studies is proud to host a presentation of a comprehensive new book on twentieth-century Polish culture, .
The event will feature two of the book's editors, Tamara Trojanowska (University of Toronto) and Joanna Ni偶y艅ska (Indiana University), in conversation with (海角社区).
Please register for a free ticket .
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Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland鈥檚 return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland鈥檚 cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Poland鈥檚 modern and contemporary cultural practices, and challenges the narrative typically prescribed to Polish literature and film.
Reflecting the radical changes, rifts, and restorations that swept through Poland in this period, Polish literature and film reveal a multitude of perspectives. Addressing romantic perceptions of the Polish immigrant, the politics of post-war cinema, poetry, and mass media, Being Poland is a comprehensive reference work written with the intention of exposing an international audience to the explosion of Polish literature and film that emerged in the twentieth century.
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Tamara Trojanowska听is Associate Professor in Polish Studies and Director of the听Center for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.听Her current research focuses on the intersections of drama and theatre with history and religious thought, and emphasizes issues of identity, subversion, and transgression, topics that she has published on in Poland, Canada, United States, and England.
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Joanna Ni偶y艅ska听is Associate Professor in Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Center at Indiana University, Bloomington.听Her longstanding interests in intersections between trauma, memory and the everyday are reflected in her monographs听The Kingdom of Insignificance: Miron Bialoszewski and the Quotidian, the Traumatic, and the Queer听(Northwestern UP, 2013) and听German-Polish Postmemorial Relations: In Search of a Livable Past听(co-edited with Kristin Kopp, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
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