In-Between Empire
Imperial Exceptionalism, Poland, and Colonial Travel Writing
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 28 May 2026
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350498679
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Short description:
This book explores how Polish writers in colonial West Africa positioned themselves as neither colonized or colonizers, employing their unique 'in-between' position to influence international discourse and policy on colonialism and its legacy.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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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
