Rethinking Modern Polish Identities (eBook, ePUB)

Transnational Encounters
Redaktion: Pasieka, Agnieszka; Rodak, Pawel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 overseas immigrant communities. The authors, renowned scholars from Europe and the United States, thus demonstrate that an understanding of modern Polish identity means crossing not only historical but also geographical boundaries.

Consequently, the narrative on Polish identity that unfolds in the volume is a personalized and multivocal one that presents the perspectives of a wide range of subjects: peasants, workers, migrants, ethnic and sexual minorities-that is, all those actors who have been absent in grand national narratives. As such, the examination of Polishness sheds light on the identity question more broadly, emphasizing the interplay of pluralizing and homogenizing tendencies, and fostering a reflection on national identity as encompassing both sameness and difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800108608
• Artikelnr.: 67578172

Autorenporträt

Edited by Agnieszka Pasieka and Pawel Rodak

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Polishness. A Story of Sameness and Difference Agnieszka Pasieka Part One: Redefining Polishness 1: The Birth of the "Polak-Katolik" Brian Porter-Sz
cs 2: Vita Magistra Historiae? The Case of A. B. Pawe
Bukowiec 3: An Anti-ImperialCivilizingMission: ClaimingVolhynia for the Early Second Republic Kathryn Ciancia 4: Suspicious Origins as a Category of Polish Culture Irena Grudzi
ska-Gross 5: Redefining Polishness through Jewishness Geneviève Zubrzycki Part Two: Identity in the Making 6: Human Mobility and the Creation of a Transatlantic Polish Culture Keely Stauter-Halsted 7: "Good Americans" and Polish Modern Identity Construction after World War I Krystyna Lipi
ska Illakowicz 8: From "True Believers" to "Cultural Feminists": Polish Identity and Women's Emancipation in post-1945 and post-1989 Poland Magdalena Grabowska 9: Labor, Gender, and Interethnic Relations among Polish-American Communities in Rural Massachusetts Agnieszka Pasieka 10: Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe: Transnational Constructions of National Identity Marysia Galbraith Part Three: Portraits and Performances11: Views of Polishness: Style and Representation in Local and National Exhibitions Mägorzata Litwinowicz 12: Plebeian, Populist, Post-Enlightenment-Mass Sarmatism and Its Political Forms Przemys
aw Czapli
ski 13: The Polish Connection: Lithuanian Music and the Warsaw Autumn Festival Lisa Jakelski 14: Performing Polishness Abroad: (Non-)Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema Kris Van Heuckelom 15: "Poles-Their Own Portraits" Revisited: Taking a Critical Stand Ryszard Koziöek Afterword: Polishness. A Time of Deconstruction, a Time of Reconstruction Pawe
Rodak Editors and Contributors Index