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(Un)accidental Tourists: Polish Literature and Visual Culture in South Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries

2020/39/B/HS2/02083

Keywords:

English-language literature and culture Polish literature and culture comparative studies post-colonialism minor literatures Central Europe South Africa

Descriptors:

  • HS2_001:
  • HS2_002:
  • HS2_008:

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filologiczny

woj. małopolskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Robert Stefan Kusek 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 5

Call: OPUS 20 - announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded: 485 962 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-07-16

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-07-15

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (9)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  1. "Niesamowite dziecko" Europy Środkowej. Deborah Levy i oduczanie się "swojości".
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    Teksty Drugie. Teoria literatury, krytyka, interpretacja (rok: 2021, tom: 5, strony: 113-130), Wydawca: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18318/td.2021.5.7 - link to the publication
  2. Poetry alerting us to our propensity to repeat errors of the past". Michael Chapman and Phil van Schalkwyk in conversation with Karina Jarzyńska on Adam Zagajewski, Poland and South Africa
    Authors:
    Michael Chapman, Phil van Schalkwyk, Karina Jarzyńska
    Academic press:
    Konteksty Kultury (rok: 2023, tom: 20(1), strony: 53–57), Wydawca: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4467/23531991KK.23.008.17911 - link to the publication
  3. South Africa-sur-Nemunas: Transnational Hinterlands in Dan Jacobson's Heshel's Kingdom
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    English in Africa (rok: 2023, tom: 50(2), strony: 45865), Wydawca: nstitute for the Study of the Englishes of Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University in Makhanda
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4314/eia.v50i2.1 - link to the publication
  4. "Niesamowite dziecko" Europy Środkowej. Deborah Levy i oduczanie się "swojości".
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    Teksty Drugie. Teoria literatury, krytyka, interpretacja (rok: 2021, tom: 5, strony: 113-130), Wydawca: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18318/td.2021.5.7 - link to the publication
  5. South Africa-sur-Nemunas: Transnational Hinterlands in Dan Jacobson's Heshel's Kingdom
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    English in Africa (rok: 2023, tom: 50(2), strony: 45865), Wydawca: nstitute for the Study of the Englishes of Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University in Makhanda
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4314/eia.v50i2.1 - link to the publication
  6. From the Heart of the Country to the European Core: J.M. Coetzee and los polacos
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (rok: 2023, tom: 10(3), strony: 267-286), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/pli.2023.22 - link to the publication
  7. Poetry alerting us to our propensity to repeat errors of the past". Michael Chapman and Phil van Schalkwyk in conversation with Karina Jarzyńska on Adam Zagajewski, Poland and South Africa
    Authors:
    Michael Chapman, Phil van Schalkwyk, Karina Jarzyńska
    Academic press:
    Konteksty Kultury (rok: 2023, tom: 20(1), strony: 53–57), Wydawca: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4467/23531991KK.23.008.17911 - link to the publication
  8. Sojusznicy z oblężonych miast. Zbigniew Herbert, Stephen Watson i poezja w społeczeństwie (post)totalitarnym
    Authors:
    Karina Jarzyńska
    Academic press:
    Er(r)go. Teoria - Literatura - Kultura, (rok: 2024, tom: 49, strony: 193–210), Wydawca: WUŚ
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.31261/errgo.15365 - link to the publication
  9. Home out of home": South Africa, Central Europe, and dark nostography"
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Academic press:
    Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (rok: 2024, tom: 60, strony: 78-95), Wydawca: SAGE
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1177/30333962241272783 - link to the publication
  1. Scalding: The Autofiction of Karolina Jabłońska
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Book:
    Some Names Have Been Changed: Works by Karolina Jabłońska 2023-2024 (rok: 2024, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 57-66), Wydawca: Distanz Verlag
    Status:
    Published
  2. Like a spectre lurking inside [her]": The 'Second World' in Deborah Levy's Writing
    Authors:
    Robert Kusek
    Book:
    The 'Second World' in Contemporary British Writing (rok: 2024, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 52-70), Wydawca: V&R unipress
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.14220/9783737017572.57 - link to the publication