Do czego literaturze regionalnej potrzebny jest Niemiec? (na przykładzie twórczości lubuskiej)
Why Does Regional Literature Need a German?: The Case of Literature from Lubusz Province
Author(s): Małgorzata MikołajczakSubject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Sociology, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Nationalism Studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: regionalism; identity politics; the literary image of the German and its identity forming role; cultural studies
Summary/Abstract: This article explores the role of the German in the literature of Lubusz Province in western Poland, which is treated as an exemplary Polish-German borderland. Mikołajczak argues that images of the Lubusz German evolve in a way that is contingent on transformations in national consciousness and the expectations of postwar politics, and that this development is also influenced by regional identity politics. What’s more, the German is both a regulator and a symptom of certain phenomena in the regional community. Finally, Mikołajczak points out three basic functions of this literary image – functions that are expressed at various stages in the development of Lubusz society, from Germanophobia to Germanophilia: integration, adaptation and compensation.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 251-272
- Page Count: 22
- Language: Polish
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