In-Between Empire

Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland, and Colonial Travel Writing

Raymond Patton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-49867-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Introduction
1. Playing Indian, Becoming Settler: Paul Edmund Strzelecki, Sygurd Wisniowski, and the “Vanishing Indian”
2. A Colonizing Colony? Anxiety and Exceptionalism in the Writing of Helena Janina Pajzderska (Hajota)
3. A Benevolent Agent of Empire: Stefan Szolc-Rogozinski
4. Ferdynand Ossendowski: The Promethean Gothic in Eurasia and Eurafrica
5. The Relational Transformationalism of Ksawery Pruszynski
6. The Colonial Anticolonialism of Ryszard Kapuscinski
Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.5.2025
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-49867-X / 135049867X
ISBN-13	978-1-350-49867-9 / 9781350498679
Zustand	Neuware