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Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the ...
Continuities and Discontinuities of the Habsburg Legacy in East-Central European Discourses since 1918
In 1918 the Danube Monarchy ceased to exist and its provinces became parts of the Monarchy's successor states, which increasingly assumed the character of nation-states. The regimes of these countries were usually oblivious and/or hostile to remnants of the erstwhile Austrian rule due to ideological reasons: they treated them as traces of a superimposed imperial power and an alien – democratic, pluralistic, liberal – tradition. Notwithstanding that fact, erasing the Habsburg Empire from maps of Europe did not entail the entire cancelation of its legacy on the former Habsburg territories. Although officially neglected or suppressed, this legacy made itself felt, overtly or tacitly, in discourses present in the public sphere of the countries that superseded the Monarchy.
Voicing Memories, Unearthing Identities: Studies in the Twenty-First-Century Literatures of Eastern and East-Central Europe
In the region known as Eastern and East-Central Europe, the framework provided by memory studies became highly valuable for understanding the overload of interpretations and conflicting perspectives on events during the twentieth century. The trauma of two world wars, the development of collective consciousness according to national and ethnic categories, stories of the trampled lands and lives of people, and resistance to the rule of authoritarian and totalitarian terrors—these trajectories left complex layers of identities to unfold. The following volume addresses the issue of identity as a pivot in studies of memory and literature. In this context, it addresses the question of cultural negotiation as it took shape between memory and literature, history and literature, and memory and history, with the help of contemporary authors and their works. The authors take the literature of countries such as Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, and Russia as the point of departure, and explain its significance in terms of geographical, theoretical, and thematic perspectives.
Cham z kulą w głowie
Posłuchaj, drugiej wojny światowej nie było. Warszawa nigdy nie została zniszczona, dzisiaj pod łukami triumfalnymi spacerują Polacy, Żydzi i Ukraińcy. Warszawa – Buenos Aires Słowiańszczyzny – swego tanga nikomu nie szczędzi. Ale teraz, teraz to miasto, które nie przegrało, spływa krwią. Ulica szepcze o Kubie Hieroglifie i spisku tajnych stowarzyszeń. Kolejne trupy bez głów walają się po ulicach, a świat pogrąża się w chaosie. Kary, słuchaj, to sprawa dla ciebie. Ten ktoś zabija równie dobrze jak ty. I chce z tobą wyrównać rachunki. Kary, ty jesteś bękart, zdrajca i dezerter. Ale jesteś też detektyw, więc rusz tyłek i zajmij się tym. Przestań chlać...
The Material Culture of Multilingualism
This volume provides a unique interface between the material and linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use, and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology, history and philosophy. Taking texts, images and objects as their starting points, the authors discuss how cultural context is envisioned in particular materialities and in a variety of contexts and localities. The volume, divided into three sections, aims to deal with material culture not only in the daily language practices of the past and the present, but also language teaching in a number of settings. The main thrust of the volume, then, is the exposure of natural ties between language, cognition, identity and the material world. Aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in fields as varied as education, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, semiotics and other related disciplines, this volume documents and analyses a wide range of case studies. It provides a unique take on multilingualism and expands our understanding of how materialities permit us new and unexpected insights into multilingual practices.
Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism
Harnessing a cultural sociological approach to explore transformations in key social spheres in post-1989 Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer illuminates shifts in religiosity, sympathy towards others, and civic activity in post-Communist Poland in the light of Western influence over elements of Polish life. Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism focuses on three major cases, largely ignored in Polish scholarship: (1) a hugely popular, faux-baroque Catholic shrine, which illustrates new strategies adopted by the Polish Catholic Church to attract believers; (2) Woodstock Station, a widely known free charity music festival, demonstrating new practices of sympathy towards strangers; and (3) the emergence of national internet pro-voting campaigns and small-town watchdog websites, which uncover changes in practical uses of civic engagement. In exploring grass-roots, everyday negotiations of religiosity, charity, and civic engagement in contemporary Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer demonstrates how a country’s cultural changes can suggest wider, dramatic democratic transformation.
Rzeczpospolita zwycięska
In his novel "The triumphant Republic, a Polish alternative history", historian and journalist Ziemowit Szczerek describes an alternative Polish history from the Second World War to the present day. By writing an alternative history of Poland in which the Polish Republic wins the war and becomes a superpower, Szczerek deals with Polish complexes and national identity.
Multicultural Commonwealth
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795) was once the largest country in Europe—a multicultural republic that was home to Belarusians, Germans, Jews, Lithuanians, Poles, Ruthenians, Tatars, Ukrainians, and other ethnic and religious groups. Although long since dissolved, the Commonwealth remains a rich resource for mythmakingin its descendent modern-day states, but also a source of contention between those with different understandings of its history.Multicultural Commonwealth brings together the expertise of world-renowned scholars in a range of disciplines to present perspectives on both the Commonwealth’s historical diversity and the memory of this diversity. With cutting-edge research on the intermeshed histories and memories of different ethnic and religious groups of the Commonwealth, this volume asks how various contemporary conceptions of multiculturalism can be applied to the region through a critical lens that also seeks to understand the past on its own terms.
East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.
Rzeczpospolita zwycięska. Alternatywna historia Polski
Czy polskie imperium było na wyciągnięcie ręki? O życiu, triumfie i upadku całych narodów często decyduje zwykły przypadek. We wrześniu 1939 roku Francuzi i Anglicy nie dotrzymali swoich zobowiązań, co nieodwołalnie zmieniło losy Polski i świata. W historii alternatywnej nasi sojusznicy uderzają na Niemców zza Linii Maginota. Po krótkiej kampanii polskie oddziały wkraczają do Berlina. Za Odrą i Nysą Polacy tworzą satelickie słowiańskie państwa. Pod polskim przywództwem powstaje wielkie przymierze krajów Międzymorza skierowane przeciwko Związkowi Radzieckiemu. II Rzeczpospolita zdobywa zamorskie kolonie i broń atomową. Ale inny bieg historii to także problemy: ukraiński terroryzm, emigracja polskich Żydów na Madagaskar, infrastrukturalne zacofanie, beznadziejna reputacja Polski za granicą. Rzeczpospolita od morza do morza, o której śnił marszałek Piłsudski, czy kolos na glinianych nogach? Kontrowersyjna i przekorna wizja. Unikalne połączenie historycznej wiedzy, literackiego polotu i nowoczesnej political fiction. Powyższy opis pochodzi od wydawcy.
