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Her cur- The contributions examine contemporary rent research focuses on cultural hybrid- s social, economic and cultural processes. ity of Hispanics living in the US. e The authors look back at older cultural Elz˙bieta Rokosz-Piejko is Assistant Pro- di texts, coming from either former colonies fessor at the Institute of English Studies, u or former colonisers. They furthermore re- University of Rzeszów, Poland. She spe- St fer to the fact that theories of postcolonial- cialises in American literature and in l ism are currently more frequently applied adaptation studies. a i to study countries originally not classified n o as colonial. They attempt to define and ex- l plain the experiences of the native peoples o c of colonial territories in various historical t s situations of dependence. o P n i s t n e m p o l e v e D w e N New Developments in Postcolonial Studies STUDIES IN LINGUISTICS, ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES AND CULTURES Edited by Robert Kiełtyka and Agnieszka Uberman Advisory Board: Piotr P. Chruszczewski (Wrocław, Poland) Grzegorz A. Kleparski (Rzeszów, Poland) Zoltán Kövecses (Budapest, Hungary) Anna Malicka-Kleparska (Lublin, Poland) Sándor Martsa (Pécs, Hungary) Tadeusz Rachwał (Warsaw, Poland) El bieta Rokosz-Piejko (Rzeszów, Poland) Slávka Tomascíková (Košice, Slovakia) ż VOLUME 6 Notes on the quality assurance and peer review of this publication Prior to publication, the quality of the work published in this series is reviewed by the editors and members of Advisory Board of the series. 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Description: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2017. | Series: Studies in linguistics, Anglophone literatures and cultures ; vol. 6 Identifiers: LCCN 2017007735 | ISBN 9783631675496 Subjects: LCSH: English literature—20th century—History and criticism. | Commonwealth literature (English) —History and criticism. | Postcolonialism in literature. | Colonisation in literature. | Commonwealth countries—In literature. | Postcolonialsm. Classification: LCC PR9080 .N45 2017 | DDC 820.9/9171241—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007735 This publication was financially supported by the Institute of English Studies, University of Rzeszów. 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This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Table of Contents Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................9 Introduction ................................................................................................................11 Part I Postcolonial Literature(s) Anna Branach-Kallas Sharing Space with Others: Re-Thinking the Multicultural Encounter ..............19 Aldona Bakiera Education as a Tool for Creating Hybrid Anglo-Welsh Identity in 19th- and 20th-century Welsh Novels ....................................................................35 Oksana Weretiuk Postcolonial Ireland in McCarthy’s Bar by Pete McCarthy ...................................45 Barbara Ludwiczak The Image of the Other in The Tireless Traveler: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury – A Supplement to Postcolonial Reading of Anthony Trollope’s Travel Works .........................................................55 Małgorzata Warchał Buddhist Ecocriticism in Selected Works of Aldous Huxley’s and Chris Arthur’s Essays ..........................................................................................65 Anjali Daimari Towards a Postcolonial Ecocriticism: A Reading of Mamang Dai’s Legends of Pensam ......................................................................................................75 Patrycja Austin Liminality as Seen Through the Gardens of Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty Eight Days ...................................................89 6 Table of Contents Izabela Bierowiec When Hybrids Collide – Co-Hybridisation in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane .........................................................................................99 Dolikajyoti Sharma Cracked Within: Reading the Sri Lankan Civil War in Jean Arasanayagam’s The Dividing Line ...........................................................111 Rachael Sumner Orality, Textuality and Literary Legacy in Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen ..........................................................................................................123 Part II Postcolonial States, Hybrid Identites, Disregarded Territories Fabrício Dias da Rocha Stimuli and Challenges of “Mozambican Identity” in Africa. A Brief Analysis of the Processes of the Construction of National and Cultural Identity in Mozambique: A Postcolonial Approach .....................135 Małgorzata Martynuska Cooking up Cubanidad: Cultural Hybridity in the Case of Cuban American Cuisine .........................................................................145 Johanna Grabow The Long Road to the South Pole: Post-colonial Antarctica .........................................................................................159 Part III Postcolonial (?) Poland Gregory Allen Square Pegs into Round Holes: The Contemporary (Mis)Use of Postcolonial Theory in Poland and an Alternative .........................................169 Mira Malczyńska-Biały Neocolonialism in Polish Consumer Society ......................................................179 Table of Contents 7 Anna Jamrozek-Sowa Russian Invaders and Their Polish Subjects from the Perspective of Władysław Lech Terlecki ...............................................................189 Part IV Postcolonial Literature in Translation Łukasz Barciński Colonisation of Mind in Translation as Illustrated Through the Polish Rendition of Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie ........................................209 Marta Mamet-Michalkiewicz Postcolonial Literature in Translation: Polish Translations of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses ................................................................223 List of Contributors .................................................................................................233