Regained Landscapes: The Transfer of Power and Tradition in Polish Discourse of the Regained Territories
Journal: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Year: 2023

Abstract The chapter discusses colonial strategies underlying landscape representations of the Regained Territories in the literature of the Polish People’s Republic. These regions, incorporated into Poland after 1945, were at the centre of Polish (and socialist) spatial imaginary, functioning as a mythical place of the origin of Polish statehood and a space of utopian fantasies of a new socialist society, established through state-driven settlement. Foreign landscape, in fact marked by German i