Rethinking Modern Polish Identities - Transnational Encounters

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Agnieszka Pasieka and Pawel Rodak

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Agnieszka Pasieka (Editor), Professor Agnieszka Pasieka (Editor), Pawel Rodak (Editor), Professor Pawel Rodak (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2023
• EAN: 9781648250583
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-058-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 231 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 654 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe; Rochester Studies in East and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories