Antologizowanie jako forma polityki miejsca. Przypadek Bieszczadów – „Wiersze z Rzeszowskiego”
Anthologizing as a Form of Politics of Place: The Case of the Bieszczady Mountains in "Wiersze z Rzeszowskiego"

Summary/Abstract: Anthologizing may be one of the forms of implementing a politics of place, designing an image of space that corresponds to an adopted political and ideological narrative through an appropriate selection of poems and comments to those poems. The author suggests in this article to read the anthology with respect to the topography it contains, taking advantage of the cartographic perspective (anthology as a map), and also taking into account footnotes as a complementary part to the anthology. The author analyzes the presupposed topography of post-World War II Bieszczady on the basis of the poems included in the anthology "Wiersze z Rzeszowskiego" published in 1974. He pays attention to the convergence of the politics of place (and national policy) pursued by the central authorities of the People’s Republic of Poland towards the Bieszczady region with the politics of place implemented by means of this anthology, that is the importance of Baligród and the surrounding areas as places symbolically associated with the figure of Karol Świerczewski, the dominance of the (post)war perspective, the eradication of villages and the displacement of local communities fading into public oblivion both in the poems and in comments.

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