Słowiański blackface. Z archiwum wizualnego kompleksu kolonialnego międzywojnia
Slavic Blackface. From the Archive of the Visual Colonial Complex of the Inter-war Period

Summary/Abstract: An attempt at an initial recognition of blackface in Poland during the inter-war period – an element of spectacles, parades, the theatre, and dynamically developing visual culture, in particular its relatively new media such as the cinema and the large format billboard. The author argues that in Poland blackface was a recurring activity associated with the colonial culture of the period in question. By convincing the readers about Polish participation in imperial-racist imagination Łukasz Zaremba tries to predominantly prove that “Slavic blackface” was not as series of random events, but an anthropological praxis. As such, the latter reflects premises, superstitions, and stereotypes concerning distant oversea foreignness, thus revealing, first and foremost, inner tensions in a country of “colonialism without colonies” and suffering from a “colonial complex”. The presented article is an introductory and, at the same time, first presentation of the premises of the Colonial complex in Polish culture of the inter-war period project.

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