By Bozena Shallcross
In this inaugural quantity of the Polish and Polish-American experiences Series, the Polish domestic emerges in its wealthy verbal and visible representations and a number of fabric embodiments, because the dialogue strikes from the lack of the house in the course of wartime to the Sovietized politics of housing and from the exilic suggestions of getting a house to the the idyllic evocation of the abodes of the past.
Although, as Bozena Shallcross notes in her advent, “few techniques appear to have such common charm because the idea of the home,” this quarter of research continues to be heavily underdeveloped. In essays from 16 students, Framing the Polish Home takes an important step to right that oversight, protecting a huge diversity of concerns pertinent to the discourse at the domestic and demonstrating the complexity of the house in Polish literature and culture.
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