Evoking a Displaced Homeland: the 'Poetic Memoir' of Andrzej Chciuk
dc.contributor.author | Besemeres, Mary | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-23T04:56:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-23T04:56:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-11 | |
dc.date.updated | 2019-04-14T08:38:15Z | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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 |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.citation | Mary 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.html | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 1836-4845 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/170649 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_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.publisher | Flinders University | en_AU |
dc.rights | © 2017 The author/s | en_AU |
dc.source | Transnational Literature | en_AU |
dc.source.uri | https://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/vol10_issue1.html | en_AU |
dc.title | Evoking a Displaced Homeland: the 'Poetic Memoir' of Andrzej Chciuk | en_AU |
dc.type | Journal article | en_AU |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 15 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Besemeres, Mary, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u8902102@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Besemeres, Mary, u8902102 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 200509 - Central and Eastern European Literature (incl. Russian) | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 950203 - Languages and Literature | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9803255xPUB1998 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 10 | en_AU |
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBy | u9803255 | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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