Between Uniqueness and Universalism: an Image of Indigenous Characters. 
Reception of Australian Aboriginal Literature in Poland

Authors

  • Teresa Podemska-Abt dr, Australijski Instytut Studiów Tubylczych, Adelaide, Australia.

Keywords:

indigenous character, Indigenous identity, Aboriginal literature, Indigenous story, literary interpretation, literary comparison, dialogism, reception, ethics of writing and reading, Carpentaria, Alexis Wright, Lionel Fogarty, Anita Heiss

Abstract

Being a result from the 2008/9 research into interpretation of Aboriginal literature within Polish readerships, the article explores ways in which Indigenous characters are imagined and understood by Polish readers. Also, given that literatures and their characters are usually looked throughout the readers’ schemata and memory scans, it shows the dominant ways in which the Polish readers interpret and communicate with some of those characters.

Author Biography

Teresa Podemska-Abt, dr, Australijski Instytut Studiów Tubylczych, Adelaide, Australia.

Zajmuje się literaturą aborygeńską i jej tłumaczeniem. Absolwentka Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, University of Adelaide oraz University of South Australia (PhD). Zainteresowania: teoria literatury, interpretacja, socjologia literatury, literatura migracyjna, literatura polska, wielokulturowość. Autorka książki Spaces of literary Wor(l)ds and Reality: Australian Aboriginal Literature, licznych artykułów i rozpraw (np. Dreaming and Dreamtime, czyli życie i śnienie Pierwszych Mieszkańców Australii, „Poezja Dzisiaj” 2014, nr 106; Let’s play the game; Readers and renderings of AL, w: Rozmowy o komunikacji 5, red. G. Hebraj-ska, Łódź 2011).

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Published

2020-12-15

How to Cite

Podemska-Abt, T. (2020). Between Uniqueness and Universalism: an Image of Indigenous Characters. 
Reception of Australian Aboriginal Literature in Poland. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 9(1), 151–172. Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/PPol/article/view/10673

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2012): Zjazd Polonistów

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Varia

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