Between geography and politics. About a certain interwar touring discourse Cover Image

Między geografią a polityką. O pewnym międzywojennym dyskursie krajoznawczym
Between geography and politics. About a certain interwar touring discourse

Author(s): Aleksandra Chomiuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Human Geography, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: The interwar period; touring literature; ”The Wonders of Poland”; imaginative geography; politics of place; politics of memory

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is a description of the geographical-political discourse entered in the interwar tourist series “The Wonders of Poland”. The descriptions of regions of the prewar Republic of Poland included in the individual volumes were subjected by the authors to the symbolic polonization, which reduced the national diversity of the Polish state to the ethnographic patchwork dimension. The disclosure of these ideological mechanisms was enabled in this article by references to the research assumptions of imaginative geography, politics of place and politics of memory.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 55-69
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish