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A Sound Body in a Socialist Nation: Family, Work, and Disability in Polish Young Adult Literature and Disability Memoirs, 1954-1991
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A Sound Body in a Socialist Nation: Family, Work, and Disability in Polish Young Adult Literature and Disability Memoirs, 1954-1991
Yazar:
Pamula, Natalia Magdalena, author.
ISBN:
9780438048386
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1 electronic resource (222 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek; Michael Rembis Committee members: Malgorzata Fidelis; Cynthia Wu.
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My dissertation, A Sound Body in a Socialist Nation: Family, Work, and Disability in Polish Young Adult Literature and Disability Memoirs, 1954--1991, analyzes literary representations of disability in Polish socialist-era literature in order to rethink the importance of family, work, and rehabilitation not only in the lives of Polish citizens, but also in the history of Polish nationalism. My inquiry is centered on two genres: young adult literature (YAL), which functioned as a site of propaganda dissemination and a tool to shape the minds of young citizens. I also study disability memoirs that contest the fantasy of a "good life" under state socialism and complicate state narratives presented by YAL writers.
Through a comparative analysis of memoirs and young adult fiction, my dissertation foregrounds the often-forgotten experience of living with socialism and navigating its political terrain as a person with a disability. The study of disability life writing brings up the question of self-representation under state socialism in Poland and recovers the voices of disabled people whose memoirs have not yet been researched either in Europe, including Poland, or in the U.S. While disability operates in YAL as a metaphor for a wounded nation, disability memoirs offer more nuanced imagery that allows readers to recognize socialist citizenship as embodied and grounded in one's participation in a dominant "rehabilitative regime," which I understand as a duty to rehabilitate (in order to become a productive member of society after transforming into an able-bodied person) for disabled subjects. Therefore, disability, despite socialist slogans of equality, results in an uneven distribution of citizenship rights and restricts one's national belonging.
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School code: 0656
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