In:Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and perception in literature
Edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Madhu Grover
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 12] 2019
► pp. 109–124
Chapter 7Exoticization of Russia and the Russian people in Polish
literature
Published online: 28 November 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.07woj
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.12.07woj
Article outline
- The absence of Russia in postcolonial discourse and its reasons
- The attempts to orientalize Russia: A mysterious “Russian soul”
- The absence of Polish literature in postcolonial discourse
- Polish-Russian relations and the image of Russia and Russian people
- Exoticization
- Exoticization strategies
- Selection of information to stress the country’s intellectual and cultural backwardness
- Hyperbolization in the description of reality
- Using the locus horridus (terrible place) topos
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