TY - JOUR
TI - Young Poland and Young(er) Ukraine: Władysław Orkan’s Translation and PopularisingActivity from a Postcolonial Perspective
AU - Ganushchak, Iurii
TI - Young Poland and Young(er) Ukraine: Władysław Orkan’s Translation and PopularisingActivity from a Postcolonial Perspective
AB - 
	Polish translator Wladyslaw Orkan was one of the greatest popularizers of Ukrainian literature in Poland at the turn of the 19th century. He translated and edited the selection of Ukrainian novellas Mloda Ukraina, published in 1908. Ukrainian motives also constituted a significant element of his own texts (Kostka Napierski 1925).

	The paper discusses translations and metatexts (prefaces, introductions) by Władysław Orkan in the context of postcolonial criticism. Numerous texts describing Polish-Ukrainian relations have shown essential post-colonial legacy recognizable in Polish literature taking up topics related to Ukraine (see. esp. Skórczewski 2013, Bakuła 2014). The use of that theory in analysis of Orkan’s translations, therefore, seems justified.

	Orkan’s strategies in translation were influenced his personality and the need to “defend” Ukrainian literature in Poland. In his original work, Orkan felt a bit lonely because he was one of the first Polish writers of peasant origin who wrote about rural life and presented values hitherto absent from Polish literature.

	By raising Ukrainian literature to the status of national literature, Orkan proved that there was separate national Ukrainian culture. Accordingly, he may be said to have de-colonized Ukraine for the Polish reader.
VL - 2016
IS - Numer 33 – (Post)kolonializm w przekładzie
PY - 2017
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 127
EP - 139
DO - 10.4467/16891864PC.16.026.7349
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/mloda-polska-i-mlod-sz-a-ukraina-tworczosc-przekladowa-i-dzialalnosc-popularyzatorska-wladyslawa-orkana-w-perspektywie-postkolonialnej
KW - translation
KW - postcolonialism
KW - Wladyslaw Orkan
KW - Ukrainian literature
KW - Polish literature
KW - Polish-Ukrainian relations
KW - Young Poland
KW - Young Ukraine