Polish culture in Britain : literature and history,1772 to the present / Maggie Ann Bowers, Ben Dew, editors.
Bowers, Maggie Ann, editor.; Dew, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
2023
DA125.P6 P65 2023
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Polish culture in Britain : literature and history,1772 to the present / Maggie Ann Bowers, Ben Dew, editors.
ISBN
9783031321887 (electronic bk.)
303132188X (electronic bk.)
3031321871
9783031321870
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Language
English
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1 online resource (291 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-031-32188-7 doi
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DA125.P6 P65 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
941.0049185
Summary
This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain. Maggie Ann Bowers is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor of two special issues focusing on contemporary writing and culture: Journal of Postcolonial Writings Imaginary Europes and Wasafiris North American Native Literature and Literary Activism. She is also the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004), and the editor of the multilingual volume Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices (2001). Ben Dew is Associate Professor in Cultural History at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Commerce, Finance and Statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780 (2018) and the editor of Tea and Commerce (2010) and Historical Writing in Britain (2014).
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Dew, Benjamin, 1978- editor.
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POLISH CULTURE IN BRITAIN.
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Intro
Preface
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part One
Part Two
Bibliography
Newspapers
Published Works
Part I: Before 1918
Chapter 2: From the Moon to Kennington Common: British Perceptions of the Poland and the Poles 1750-1850
Bibliography
Periodicals
Published Sources
Chapter 3: Brave and Patriotic Poles: British Politics and Polish Independence, 1830-1847
Introduction
"A Most Sanguinary Contest": 1830-1831

"Engraving the Name of Poland on the Walls of European Parliaments": 1832-1834
"Kraków Should Be Re-established": 1834-1847
Occupation of Kraków and Its Aftermath: 1836-1840
The Kraków Revolution of 1846
The Annexation of Kraków: 1846-1847
Conclusion
Bibliography
Archives
Newspapers
Collections of Letters, Memoirs and Other Publications
Secondary Sources
Chapter 4: Why Britain? The Motives and Circumstances of Polish Political Refugees' Arrivals to the United Kingdom in the 1830s and 1840s
Bibliography
Archival Sources
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources

Chapter 5: Polish History in Britain: The Work of Napoleon Feliks Żaba, Leon Szadurski and J.F. Gomoszyński
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Conclusion
Bibliography
Periodicals
Published Works
Chapter 6: "Poland Has No Claim on You": By Celia's Arbour and British Representations of Poland in the Victorian Era
From Admiring to Ambivalent: The Pole in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Narrative Structure in By Celia's Arbour
Portsmouth's Polish Community
Crimean and Indian Contexts
The Balkans and the Russo-Turkish War
Laddy's Polishness
Bibliography
Part II: After 1918

Chapter 7: Polish Post-World-War-II Exiles in Britain: The London Wiadomości and Its Cultural Milieu
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Migrant Lives and the Dynamics of (Non)belonging in the Polish-British Works of A.M. Bakalar, Wioletta Greg, and Agnieszka Dale
A.M. Bakalar and Polish-British Entanglements
Wioletta Greg and the Productive Duality of Migrant Experience
Agnieszka Dale and Relationality Beyond Difference
Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 9: A Country Constructed from Memories: Representations of Poland and Poles in Migrant Writing in the Twenty-First Century

The Land of Limited Opportunities and High Aspirations
Reliving the Past?
To Be a Pole Is to Be a Catholic
Interrogating the Traditional View of Women
A Microcosm of Polish Society in Britain
Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Poland and Poles
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Poles Among Others: Literary Perspectives on Polish Migrants in Britain Since 2004
"Re-East-Europeanizing" the Decolonial Option: On Theory
From Initial Animosities to Practical Solidarity
Intercultural Clashes
Cosmopolitan Short-Term Adventures
Identificatory Alliances
Overall Picture

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