Authors
Kamila Budrowska1; 1 University of Bialystok, UK Discussion
The paper will explore new avenues of research on literary censorship in Poland in 1944-1990: the transnational, postcolonial and minority narrative perspective. The most important challenge confronting Polish censorship research today is to create transnational studies. The most relevant comparisons can be made with censorship systems in other state-socialist countries. From this perspective the Soviet system in the USSR would be an implementation model, a matrix, and we can examine how far censorship in each country approaches or departs from this model. The transnational perspective releases the researcher from the national perspective of political history, creating the possibility of tracing "flows" of ideas, people and cultural texts between the Eastern Bloc countries [Oates-Indruchova, 2020]. From the postcolonial perspective Poland was both a colonizing force and a colonized country [Thompson, 2008]. From the postcolonial perspective we may ask precisely whose interests were safeguarded by the communist government in Poland. The perspective of minority narratives may seem less obvious. “Minority" – whether a socially, ethnically or gender non-dominant group – has less power of articulation and greater difficulty in making its presence felt in public space. "Minority" discourse therefore fills in the gaps, the margins, supplementing or contesting the dominant narrative. From this perspective, we may look at those texts or passages that have been permanently or tem 
