ŚWIAT POLARNYCH NIEPRAWOŚCI: JAN WELZL WŚRÓD ESKIMOSÓW
THE WORLD OF POLAR DEPRAVITIES: JAN WELZL AMONG THE ESKIMOS
Author(s): Piotr GierowskiSubject(s): Literary Texts, Social history, Czech Literature, 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Czech literature; literature of fact; travel literature; Jan Welzl; Eskimos;
Summary/Abstract: Jan Welzl (1868-1948) was a Czech traveller, globetrotter, polar explorer, hunter, gold prospector and wńter who lived on the New Siberian Islands for about 30 years. His memoirs and autobiograpbical a.ccounts were wńtten down with a help of the professional wńters and journalists (R. Tčsnohlidek, B. Golombek, E. Valenta) and became very popular in Czcchoslovakia. The paper will be an attempt to reconstruct and analyze, on the basis of Wełzl's literaty work, his way of seeing the polar regions as a space wbere the biding social standards and regulation.s bave been cbanged or suspended. Especially the Eskimo people are seen by Welzl as a social group in which the European bebavioral patterns and European social norms (moral, ethical, sexual, etc.) are undermined or non-biding.
Journal: Studia et Documenta Slavica
- Issue Year: 8/2019
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 7-22
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish