Mitologia pogranicza. Australia i Stany Zjednoczone Sygurda Wiśniowskiego
Mythology of a borderland. Sygurd Wiśniowski on Australia and the United States
Author(s): Wacław ForajterSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: borderland/frontier; expansion; modernity; journey
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the concept of ‘borderland’ in selected works by Sygurd Wiśniowski: a 19th century Polish traveller who encountered the territorial and cultural expansion of the white settlers in Australia and North America. The author of the article aims to present both the specificity and the complexity of ‘borderland phenomenon’ as described by Wiśniowski. The author concentrates also on absent or omitted elements in Wiśniowski’s discourse (which can be observed in his attitude towards the native inhabitants and women) and reveals Wiśniowski’s utopian ideas (such as equality of opportunity).
Journal: Postscriptum Polonistyczne
- Issue Year: 17/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 23-32
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Polish