{"product_id":"9780228024286-time-for-the-province","title":"A Time for the Province","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePalimpsests and Borders in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Time for the Province\u003c\/em\u003e explores the culturally and symbolically important region of the Polish borderlands through the idea of the palimpsest in modern Polish provincial literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin discourses on Polish provincial or marginal literature, the eastern borderlands are a richly symbolic region that inspires much fascination and study.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough close readings, surveys, and analyses of transborder narratives by seven modern writers who hailed from the Polish borderlands or set their works there, \u003cem\u003eA Time for the Province\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates how the region has come to represent a palimpsest of cultural identities and myths as each new generation unearths and rediscovers them. George Gasyna explores and theorizes the province as a space of grand utopian visions and dystopic gestures about both the Polish past and a Polish future. Offering a novel literary and cultural history of modern Polish writing, he paves the way toward productive new modes of conceptualizing the cultural and literary forms that have come from Central Europe over the last century, challenging many basic assumptions about what this literature can offer its readership in Poland and around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough engagement with the theoretical apparatuses of postmemory studies and border studies, \u003cem\u003eA Time for the Province\u003c\/em\u003e redefines Polish cultural identity in the current moment of postsocialist transition and globalized citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55505604116854,"sku":"9780228024286","price":99.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_38975982.jpg?v=1769472368","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228024286-time-for-the-province","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}