Between East and West: A Critical Mapping of Polish Culture

Harvard FAS

This course will introduce you to the history of Polish literature and Polish cultural imagination, focusing on several questions that remain resonant to this day, such as Poland’s entangled relations with Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Jewish, German, and Russian cultures. Critical discussions of Polish literature and film (including readings of Polish Nobel Prize winners: Tokarczuk, Szymborska, Milosz, and Sienkiewicz) will be confronted with Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Yiddish texts.…