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In-Between Empire: Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland and Colonial Travel Writing

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

In-Between Empire: Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland and Colonial Travel Writing

Contributors:

By (Author) Raymond Patton

ISBN:

9781350498648

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

14th November 2024

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Decolonisation and postcolonial studies
African history
European history

Dewey:

891.8509355

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

280

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Description

Exploring how Polish writers positioned themselves as neither colonized nor colonizers, In-Between Empire analyses their literary works on empire during the 19th and 20th centuries to explore how they negotiated their in-between position in the global imperial hierarchy. Leveraging this vantage point, they claimed the unique ability to represent the South to the West, constructing a Polish national identity in conversation with both imperial and anti-imperial currents, and influencing international discourse on colonialism and its legacy. Written at the nexus of historical and literary studies of imperial and colonial discourse, Patton centres Poland and Eastern Europe in debates that have frequently excluded these perspectives. Showing how these Polish writers attempted to portray anticolonial solidarity with non-European victims of colonialism, yet also employed European colonial tropes, each writer demonstrated a distinctive ability to identify the tensions and flaws of imperialism, whilst simultaneously reconciling those tensions to themselves as exceptional Europeans, innocent of colonialism, by alternating between metropolitan and peripheral perspectives. In doing so, they informed transnational discourses and policies on colonialism, decolonization, the Cold War and beyond.

Author Bio

Raymond Patton is Associate Professor of History at The City University of New York, USA. His area of expertise is in 20th century global, transnational and East European History, and he is the author of Punk Crisis: The Global Punk Rock Revolution (2018).

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