The Political Usefulness of the Landscape in the Interwar Publishing Series “Cuda
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Polityczna użyteczność krajobrazu w międzywojennej serii wydawniczej „Cuda Polski”
The Political Usefulness of the Landscape in the Interwar Publishing Series “Cuda Polski” [Wonders of Poland]

Author(s): Aleksandra Chomiuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: local history; series “Cuda Polski” [Wonders of Poland]; landscape; geopolitics; nationalist politics; ecology

Summary/Abstract: Chomiuk examines the publishing series “Cuda Polski” [Wonders of Poland] with a focuson the ideological underpinning of descriptions related geography and natural history.A key notion is the landscape used to identify topographical and anthropological typesof space, both in geography and in the humanities. Exploring this notion Chomiukhighlights the interwoven hidden relationships between ideas about nature andpolitical ideas about national belonging. These relationships are rooted in the discoursesof the early twentieth century – discourses pertaining to the nation, geopolitics, ecologyand modernism.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 339-356
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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