Exotic Others or Fellow Travellers ? Representations of India in Polish Travel Writing during Communist Era
Journal: Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
Year: 2018

India has been widely represented in European literature for several centuries: as an exotic, far-away country and land of mystics, but also as a land of poverty and feudal oppression. That imagery is part of what Edward Said and other scholars defined as Orientalist discourse. This dissertation attempts at showing the exceptional durability of such stereotypes, even in a postcolonial era, and in a culture that never had a truly colonial discourse of its own. The Polish culture, shaped by partic