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
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.
Subject:	National characteristics, Polish. Polish people -- Ethnic identity. Nationalism -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. National characteristics, Polish. Nationalism. Polish people -- Ethnic identity. Poland -- History. Poland. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13020685

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Other authors / contributors:	Pasieka, Agnieszka, 1983- editor. Rodak, Paweł, 1967- editor.
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

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Polishness : a story of sameness and difference / Agnieszka Pasieka
Part one. Redefining Polishness. The birth of the "polak-katolik" / Brian Porter-Szűcs ; Vita magistra historiae? : the case of A.B. / Paweł Bukowiec ; An anti-imperial civilizing mission? : claiming Volhynia for the early Second Polish Republic / Kathryn Ciancia ; Suspicious origins as a category of Polish culture / Irena Grudzińska-Gross ; Redefining Polishness through Jewishness / Geneviève Zubrzycki
Part two. Identity in the making. Human mobility and the creation of a transatlantic Polish culture / Kelly Stauter-Halsted ; "Good Americans" and Polish modern identity construction after World War I / Krystyna Lipińska Illakowicz ; From "true believers" to "cultural feminists" : Polish identity and women's emancipation in post-1945 and post-1989 Poland / Magdalena Grabowska ; Labor, gender, and interethnic relations among Polish-American communities in rural Massachusetts / Agnieszka Pasieka ; Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe : transnational constructions of national identity / Marysia Galbraith
Part three. Portraits and performances. Views of Polishness : style and representation in local and national exhibitions / Małgorzata Litwinowicz ; Plebeian, populist, post-Enlightenment : mass Sarmatism and its political forms / Przemysław Czapliński ; The Polish connection : Lithuanian music and the Warsaw autumn festival / Lisa Jakelski ; Performing Polishness abroad : (non-)Polish actors and the construction of (trans)national identities in European cinema / Kris Van Heuckelom
"Poles--their own portraits" revisited : taking a critical stand / Ryszard Koziołek
Afterword. Polishness : a time of deconstruction, a time of reconstruction / Paweł Rodak.

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