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Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
Transnational Encounters
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2023
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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.
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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Contributor: Agnieszka Pasieka
AGNIESZKA PASIEKA is a research fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
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Contributor: Paweł Rodak
PAWEL RODAK is a historian and professor at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw.
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Contributor: Agnieszka Pasieka
AGNIESZKA PASIEKA is a research fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.
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Contributor: Paweł Rodak
PAWEL RODAK is a historian and professor at the Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Polishness: A Story of Sameness and Difference
1 - Part One: Redefining Polishness
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1. The Birth of the “Polak-Katolik”
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2. Vita Magistra Historiae? The Case of A. B.
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3. An Anti-Imperial Civilizing Mission: Claiming Volhynia for the Early Second Polish Republic
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4. Suspicious Origins as a Category of Polish Culture
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5. Redefining Polishness through Jewishness
92 - Part Two: Identity in the Making
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6. Human Mobility and the Creation of a Transatlantic Polish Culture
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7. “Good Americans” and Polish Modern Identity Construction after World War I
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8. From “True Believers” to “Cultural Feminists”: Polish Identity and Women’s Emancipation in post-1945 and post-1989 Poland
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9. Labor, Gender, and Interethnic Relations among Polish-American Communities in Rural Massachusetts
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10. Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe: Transnational Constructions of National Identity
208 - Part Three: Portraits and Performances
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11. Views of Polishness: Style and Representation in Local and National Exhibitions
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12. Plebeian, Populist, Post-Enlightenment: Mass Sarmatism and Its Political Forms
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13. The Polish Connection: Lithuanian Music and the Warsaw Autumn Festival
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14. Performing Polishness Abroad: (Non-)Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema
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15. “Poles—Their Own Portraits” Revisited: Taking a Critical Stand
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Afterword: Polishness: A Time of Deconstruction, a Time of Reconstruction
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index of Names
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Index of Subjects
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January 11, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9781800108592
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University of Rochester Press
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Keywords for this book
Humanities; Social Science; Eastern Europe; Peasants; Workers; Migrants; Ethnic Minorities; Sexual Minorities; National Identity
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
