ANIOŁY W POLSCE. Fantazja na motywach narodowych
Angels in Poland: A Fantasia on National Motifs

Summary/Abstract: Who were the Polish women soldiers during World War I? Who remembers, or perhaps who does not remember the female knight Wanda Gertz? Dorota Sajewska confronts the myth of the Polish woman as a woman who can only wait for, then mourn the soldier, using the theories of Walter Benjamin, the film When Angels Fall byRoman Polański, and Polish paintings from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She proves that the marginalization of the roles of women in descriptions of armed conflicts in Poland, and their reduction to the role of nurses is a major falsification. This article also provides an answer to who played the roles of women in the field theaters.

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