Literackie obrazy miasta w nauczaniu polonistycznym cudzoziemców
Literary images of the city in teaching Polish to foreigners

Summary/Abstract: The article is a proposal on how to discover important cultural issues of a universal nature in work with a foreign audience using a literary text. The recent history of Kazimierz, one of Krakow’s districts, becomes a pretext to reflect on how one can decipher, through important landmarks in the urban space, the record of a (non-)present community, and address aspects related to the processes of urban landscape revitalisation, at the same time weighing the benefits and threats resulting from them. The literary project O_Kaz. analysed in the article becomes, in the author’s intention, a platform for discovering the historical record/significance of the place, supposed to inspire the target audience not only to start a discourse on Polish culture and the local ways of adjusting to the sense of emptiness/lack, but also to encourage foreigners to take a contrastive approach to the issue. The Krakow quarter, as a literary motif, becomes an inspiration for a narrative on the openness of the Polish society towards the Other with a different cultural background. The text fits within the discourse on the place of literary text in the Polish language education of foreigners and within studies in the field of the humanities analysing aspects of identity in the context of place, in this case: recorded traces of (non-)presence of a community in the urban fabric.

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