Rethinking modern Polish identities : transnational encounters /
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Imprint: | Rochester, NY, USA : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2023. ©2023 |
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Description: | viii, 375 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Rochester studies in East and Central Europe, 1528-4808 Rochester studies in East and Central Europe. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13020685 |
Other authors / contributors: | Pasieka, Agnieszka, 1983- editor. Rodak, Paweł, 1967- editor. |
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ISBN: | 9781648250583 1648250580 9781800108592 9781800108608 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Summary: | "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"-- |
Other form: | Online version: Rethinking modern Polish identities Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023 9781800108592 |
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