Śląsk jako teren dyskursywnych zmagań polskości
Silesia as a Terrain for Discursive Requirements of Polishness

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the plays Love in Köningshütte by Ingmar Villqist, Cholonka by Korez Theater, and Leszek Sobieraj’s drama The Otherworldly Dwarf. She sees them as attempts to revindicate the Silesian identity and to find a language for expressing this identity isolated from the imposed cliches and dominant discourses. Through post-colonial theories, the author locates two tendencies. Villqist builds essential forms of cultural identity deriving from the survival of the community over time. The two other pieces attempt to grasp Silesian identity as an expression of cultural negotiation and performative staging. Thus conceived, this identity is fluid, hybrid, and short-lived, making it more akin to tendencies recognized in multicultural societies.

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