„Mordujmy się!”. Dekonstrukcja polskiej tożsamości narodowej w „Lilli Wenedzie” Juliusza Słowackiego i teatralnej recepcji dramatu
Let’s Murder!”:Deconstruction of the Polish National Identity in Lilla Wenedaby Juliusz Słowacki and Theatrical Reception of the Drama

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the concept of Polish national identity in Juliusz Słowacki’s Lilla Weneda. The author argues that Słowacki shows in the drama the genesis of Poles as a nation which came into being asa result of the bloody conquest of the Venedians by the Lechits. By doing that, the poetuses irony to deconstruct Polish identity based on a sense of injustice and marked by unprocessed trauma. In his considerations, he takes into account the theatrical reception of the tragedy, which proves its ambivalent character The article analyses the concept of Polish national identity in Juliusz Słowacki’sLilla Weneda. The author argues that Słowacki shows in the drama the genesis of Poles as a nation which came into being asa result of the bloody conquest of the Venedians by the Lechits. By doing that, the poetuses irony to deconstruct Polish identity based on a sense of injustice and marked by unprocessed trauma. In his considerations, he takes into account the theatrical reception of the tragedy, which proves its ambivalent character

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