Ludowość niewzruszona. Europa Wschodnia w spojrzeniu podróżników
Folklore Unshaken. Eastern Europe According to Travelers
Author(s): Katarzyna Murawska-MuthesiusSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Eastern Europe; visual truths; women in folk costume; inaccessible mountains; cruel husbands
Summary/Abstract: The visual truths about the otherness of Eastern Europe formulated through illustrationsin travel literature differ from those conveyed by accompanying texts. From seventeenthcenturyprints to reportage photography in National Geographic, the images continuouslyforeground images of mountains and locals in folk costumes. Emphasizing inaccessibleterrain and ethnic otherness, the images absorb new meanings when adapted to formulasof regional countries’ self-representations. The article elaborates on the chapter “The Lureof the Ethnic Dress: Eastern Europe in the Traveller’s Gaze” from Murawska-Muthesius’sImaging and Mapping Eastern Europe: Sarmatia Europea to the Communist Bloc, Routledge:New York, 2021. The book includes full bibliography.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 234-251
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Polish
- Content File-PDF
