Coming of Age Under Martial Law: The Initiation Novels of Poland's Last Communist Generation

by Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova and Svetlana Vasileva-Karagozova

This volume is a study of approximately thirty coming-of-age Polish novels written by the so-called '89ers -- the generation who became adults just as Communist rule was ending. Narrating fictionalized childhoods in Poland in the 1970s and '80s and the transition to adulthood in the late '80s and early '90s, these novels depict the consequences of the fall of Communism for their protagonists' maturation process. Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465285
• ISBN13: 9781580465281
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"