Evoking a Displaced Homeland: the 'Poetic Memoir' of Andrzej Chciuk

dc.contributor.authorBesemeres, Mary
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-23T04:56:03Z
dc.date.available2019-09-23T04:56:03Z
dc.date.issued2017-11
dc.date.updated2019-04-14T08:38:15Z
dc.description.abstractThis article looks at some poems by Polish Australian writer Andrzej Chciuk (1920-1978). Chciuk migrated to Australia from France in 1951, having escaped Nazi-occupied Poland as a twenty-year-old in 1940. In Australia he worked as a schoolteacher in Melbourne while continuing to write poetry and fiction in Polish. His work was published in prestigious Polish emigré outlets like the Paris-based journal Kultura and in Australia with sponsorship from the Polish migrant community; to date no English translations of it have appeared. My article focuses on a sequence of poems in his 1961 Pamiętnik poetycki (Poetic Memoir) called ‘Tamta Ziemia’ (That Other Land), about the cities and towns of Chciuk’s childhood: Lwów, Borysław and his hometown of Drohobycz. When the author was growing up these towns were in eastern Poland; by the time of his writing, in the 1950s, however, they had become part of Soviet Ukraine, and were thus doubly removed from his life in Australia. He wrote as a displaced person whose childhood home had itself been displaced. Hence the powerful note of longing that pervades his ‘poetic memoir’. Through a reading of some passages in my English translation, I hope to convey something of Chciuk’s lively poetic voice, and to show that he deserves admission to discussions of twentieth-century transnational Australian literature.en_AU
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dc.identifier.citationMary Besemeres. ‘Evoking a Displaced Homeland: The ‘Poetic Memoir’ of Andrzej Chciuk. Transnational Literature Vol. 10 no. 1, November 2017. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.htmlen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1836-4845en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/170649
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenance"Welcome to Transnational Literature, an open access, refereed international e-journal published twice a year by the Flinders Institute for Research in the Humanities, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia." https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html#about (as at 23/9/19)en_AU
dc.publisherFlinders Universityen_AU
dc.rights© 2017 The author/sen_AU
dc.sourceTransnational Literatureen_AU
dc.source.urihttps://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/vol10_issue1.htmlen_AU
dc.titleEvoking a Displaced Homeland: the 'Poetic Memoir' of Andrzej Chciuken_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage15en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBesemeres, Mary, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu8902102@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBesemeres, Mary, u8902102en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200509 - Central and Eastern European Literature (incl. Russian)en_AU
local.identifier.absseo950203 - Languages and Literatureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9803255xPUB1998en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume10en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu9803255en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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