Monday 10 February 2020

Conservative revolution: Rightwing literature in Poland after 1989

an article by Maciej Urbanowski published in OSTEUROPA, Germany and republished in Eurozine


Collage of covers and artwork by Polish magazines Brulion, Fronda, 44/Czterdziesci i cztery. All images are courtesy of Brulion, Fronda and 44/Czterdziesci i cztery.

Right-wing literature reappeared in Poland after 1989, having been absent from cultural life during communism. Since 2010, political polarisation has caused its significance and visibility to increase. But what defines right-wing literature in Poland? A typology of its motifs and genres, from anti-communism to anti-modernism, historical revisionism to sci-fi.

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Poland, 1989, right-wing_politics,


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