Among the many things Anthropocene is changing about human ways to live and think, one can include our understanding of cultures their relations. Facing its diverse manifestations (climate change rising temperatures, biodiversity loss oceans acidification, etc.), there a strong temptation resort predefined cultural assumptions provide ready-made narratives guilty scapegoats unlikely saviours sa...

EnglishThe aim of this paper is to examine the representation Poland and Poles in works Georges Simenon, from a perspective inspired mainly by imagology theory orientalism. This includes Simenon’s reportages as well novels short stories. The analysis texts leads identification certain number characteristic features Simenonian vision Poles, such as: negativization, exoticization, racialization, ...

After interrogating the (non-)referential status of the Holocaust for Asians, this essay examines Frank Ephraim’s Escape to Manila and Juergen Goldhagen’s Manila Memories. In particular, cross-traumatic affiliation is studied between two groups of people: the Manilaner and the Manileños: the former were Europeans who fled Nazism and sought refuge in Manila; the latter were Filipino residents of...

The renowned writer of historical novels Walter Scott’s representations figures reach beyond his country birth. As a man literature, he imagines the beyond. Talisman is product such excess, but it not first in Europe depicting leader Ayyubids Saladin who conquered Jerusalem and settled within consciousness West as result. Far before romantic orientalism during nineteenth century, Renaissance wa...