Published: 2022-12-07

Souvenirs, Talismans, Travel Companions… – An Outline on the Essence of Things in the Stories of Young Migrants on Selected Examples from Polish Children’s Literature

Klaudia Mucha-Iwaniczko
Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura
Section: Studies
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.959

Abstract

Things play an important role in the multicultural world – for example, they are indispensable element of migration. Moreover, their presence or absence becomes an important aspect of literary analysis – after all, they affect the fate of characters and sometimes they become characters themselves. Therefore, the author of the article considers selected examples from children’s literature – Wysiedleni [The Dis­placed] by Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala (2018), Moje Bullerbyn [My Bullerbyn] and Teraz tu jest nasz dom [This Is Our Home Now] by Barbara Gawryluk (2010, 2016), Kota, który zgubił dom [The Cat that Lost His Home] by Ewa Nowak (2016), and Hebanowe serce [Ebony Heart] by Renata Piątkowska (2016) – through the lens of the anthropology of things. She analyses the impact of the presence of things in a text from the perspective of migration experiences, indicating the functions they play in the lives of young people living in a multicultural world.

Received: 26.03.2022
Accepted: 27.09.2022

Keywords:

anthropology of things, Barbara Gawryluk, Dorota Combrzyńska-Nogala, Ewa Nowak, children’s literature, multicultural literature, migrations, souvenirs, travel, Renata Piątkowska, things, multiculturalism, multiculturality

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Mucha-Iwaniczko, K. (2022). Souvenirs, Talismans, Travel Companions… – An Outline on the Essence of Things in the Stories of Young Migrants on Selected Examples from Polish Children’s Literature. Dzieciństwo. Literatura I Kultura, 4(2), 45–55. https://doi.org/10.32798/dlk.959

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