Coming of age under martial law : the initiation novels of Poland's last communist generation

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Coming of age under martial law : the initiation novels of Poland's last communist generation

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the initiation novels of Poland's last communist generation

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Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova

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Initiation novels of Poland's last communist generation

Creator

• Vasileva-Karagʹozova, Svetlana

Contributor

• EBSCOhost

Subject

• Coming of age -- Social aspects -- Poland -- History
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• Intergenerational relations -- Poland -- History
• Maturation (Psychology) in literature
• Poland -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• Polish fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Youth in literature
• Bildungsromans -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

How do historical cataclysms affect the social conditioning of young people? How do individuals born in the same period come to form an identifiable'generation'? How do coming-of-age stories create a sense of community and generational identity? Coming of Age under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation addresses these questions, examining a selection of post-1989 coming-of-age novels authored by the generation of Polish writers whose transition from adolescence to adulthood coincided with Poland's transition from communism to liberal democracy. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova argues that when cataclysms of any nature overlap with the sensitive period of maturation into adulthood, they disrupt the natural rhythm of society's self-renewal. In the case of the Polish'89ers, the generational clash with their predecessors did not produce the anticipated generational change in leadership, but a pathological role reversal: the elders refused to give up their leadership positions, while the young were stifled in their development and occupied marginal social spaces. This social imbalance is profoundlly reflected in the content and themes of the novels produced by this younger generation, as the author shows. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova is an assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas.--

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• Rochester studies in Central Europe, 13

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NhCcYBP

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index present

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non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

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• Rochester studies in Central Europe
• Ebsco eBook Collection

Series volume

13