A Poetics of Shifting Borders. Patterns of Children's Literature and Cultural Identity in Polish Literature since 1989

该研究项目考察了从1989年至今波兰文学中交叉写作的功能和意义。因此，它揭示了波兰当代文学中的文化身份问题，迄今为止，在波兰文学研究中还没有得到任何关注。与此同时，该项目为斯拉夫语研究开辟了交叉写作的研究，这是一个迄今为止由西方文化和文学研究主导的领域。交叉写作是一种有意模糊儿童文学与成人文学的界限的写作方式。根据我的主要论文，1989年以后的波兰文学中的交叉写作是作家与成年读者就文化身份的中心问题进行交流的一种手段。对于波兰文学来说，儿童文学模式作为与成人读者交流的一种手段的潜力取决于特定的文化背景和社会话语，这些都需要在其自身的权利中加以解决。因此，波兰的交叉写作不能简单地归入交叉写作现象，自1990年代以来，几乎完全从西方的角度来研究交叉写作，几乎没有考虑到任何非西方文学。在我的分析中，我将考虑到这些波兰交叉写作的特定背景，并在跨文化的抽象性和文化特异性之间的紧张关系中考察这一现象。对1989年后波兰文学中的交叉写作的考察，为我们揭示了从20世纪80年代末到现在的政治和社会转型时期波兰的问题、交流形式以及文化身份的历史和文化基础。与此同时，该项目为进一步研究中欧和东欧国家的交叉书写提供了基础。因此，它有助于对交叉写作现象进行差异化的科学研究，改变这一研究领域的西方导向视角。通过引入新的文本范畴和发展自己的分析范畴，该项目为交叉写作理论做出了贡献。

The research project examines functions and meaning of cross-writing in Polish literature from 1989 up to the present. It thus uncovers an access to questions of cultural identity in Polish contemporary literature that to date has not received any attention in Polish literary studies. At the same time the project opens up research into cross-writing for Slavic studies, an area so far dominated by Western cultural and literary studies. Cross-writing is to be understood as a way of writing, which deliberately blurs the borders between categories of children`s literature and literature for adults. According to my main thesis cross-writing in Polish literature after 1989 is a means by which writers communicate with the adult reader about central questions of cultural identity. For Polish literature the potential of patterns of children`s literature as a means to communicate with the adult reader depends on specific cultural contexts and social discourses, which need to be addressed in their own right. Therefore, Polish cross-writing cannot simply be subsumed under the phenomenon of cross-writing, which, since the 1990s, has been examined almost exclusively from a Western point of view and has hardly taken into account any non-Western literature. In my analysis I will take into consideration these specific contexts of Polish cross-writing and examine the phenomenon in its tension between trans-cultural symptomatics and cultural specificity. The examination of cross-writing in Polish literature after 1989 sheds a new light on issues, forms of communication as well as historical and cultural foundations of cultural identity in Poland from the time of political and social transformation at the end of the 1980s to the present. At the same time the project provides a basis for further research into cross-writing in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. It thus contributes to differentiated scientific research on the phenomenon of cross-writing that changes the Western oriented perspective in this research area. By introducing new textual categories and developing its own categories of analysis the project makes a contribution to the theory of cross-writing.