Migrant Voices in the Polish Classroom: Canadian Literature on the Tertiary Level of Education
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Dagmara Drewniak
Abstract
This paper explores the possibilities of introducing contemporary Canadian texts into a Polish university classroom. It contextualizes teaching English language literature in Poland as well as seeks options for promoting values such as openness and tolerance while facilitating global reading and raising students’ awareness on global conflicts and their meaning in the contemporaneous world. The paper aims at demonstrating that Canadian literature courses composed of texts concerned with immigration and multiculturalism turn out to have an enormous potential in creating valuable debates on the problem of embracing otherness, seeking bridges in mutual understanding, and promoting openness towards different identities. On the basis of close readings of three texts, M. Ondaatje’s The English Patient, A.J. Borkowski’s Copernicus Avenue, and E. Stachniak’s Necessary Lies, the present article also demonstrates how Canadian literature enriches and rescales students’ perception of cultural heterogeneity and responsibility of reading, thus offering new perspectives on the rapidly changing world.
Funding source: Narodowe Centrum Nauki
Award Identifier / Grant number: UMO–2017/27/B/HS2/00111
Funding statement: This research was supported by the Polish National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) under Grant UMO–2017/27/B/HS2/00111.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Articles
- Challenging the Modern Subject in Joseph Conrad’s “The Planter of Malata”
- A Self-Made Man: Hard Times and the Dickensian Impostor
- Weimar Wallace: Three Early German Screen Adaptations of Novels by Edgar Wallace (1931–1934)
- Kazuo Ishiguro’s Authoritarian Narrators: An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and the Authoritarian Personality
- Migrant Voices in the Polish Classroom: Canadian Literature on the Tertiary Level of Education
- “If you’re not already writing, stop!”: An Interview with Michael Tolkin
- Book Reviews
- Nation and Migration: The Making of British Atlantic Literature, 1765–1835
- Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to Be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction
- Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature
- Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
- Books Received
- Table of Contents Vol. 67 (2019)
