Framing the Polish home

• Series Editor's Preface
• p. ix

• Acknowledgments
• p. xiii

• Guide to Pronunciation
• p. xv

• Introduction: Home Truths: Toward a Definition of the Polish Home
• p. 1

• Part I.
• Home and the Question of Identity

• 1.
• "Every One of Us Is a Stranger": Patterns of Identity in Twentieth-Century Polish Literature
• p. 13

• 2.
• Home as Other in the Work of Czeslaw Milosz
• p. 26

• 3.
• The Homelessness of the Other: The Homoerotic Experience in the Prose of Julian Stryjkowski
• p. 54

• 4.
• Home/lessness and the Discourse of Subjectivity in Gombrowicz's The Marriage and Rozewicz's The Card Index
• p. 68

• Part II.
• History, Politics, and the Home

• 5.
• Home Loss in Wartime Literature: A Typology of Images
• p. 97

• 6.
• The Archaeology of Occupation: Stefan Chwin's Writings on Danzig/Gdansk
• p. 116

• 7.
• Homeland without a Home: Tadeusz Konwicki's Experience of Home
• p. 133

• Part III.
• Urban Home/lessness

• 8.
• Place of Estrangement: Homelessness at Home in the Works of Three Postwar Polish Writers
• p. 151

• 9.
• The Destruction of the Center
• p. 163

• 10.
• The Best View Is from the Top: Autobiographical Snapshots, Communist Monuments, and (Post)Totalitarian Homelessness
• p. 179

• Part IV.
• The Writer's Abode

• 11.
• At Home with Sienkiewicz
• p. 219

• 12.
• Stawisko: The Home of Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
• p. 237

• 13.
• Between Utopia and Parody: The Home for Creative Work
• p. 265

• Part V.
• Home Away from Home

• 14.
• Home as Desire: The Popular Pleasures of Gender in Polish Emigre Drama
• p. 277

• 15.
• Gombrowicz's Binoculars: The View from Abroad
• p. 301

• 16.
• Returns to the Impossible: The Search for Home in the Prose of Gustaw Herling
• p. 317

• Notes on Authors
• p. 339

• Notes on the Contributors
• p. 343

• Index
• p. 347