Vagrant. Fellow Countryman as the Other in Kraszewski’s Writings after 1863 Cover Image

Przybłęda. Swój jako obcy w pismach Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego (po roku 1863)
Vagrant. Fellow Countryman as the Other in Kraszewski’s Writings after 1863

Author(s): Marcin Lul
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: national identity; cultural identity; politics of place; partitioned Poland; Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Summary/Abstract: In Kraszewski’s times the term ”vagrant” becomes a stigmatizing label. It denotes the Poles who return to politically-oppressed Poland, only to suffer exclusion by their fellow countrymen, who see them as suspicious revolutionists. The writer demonstrates the intersection of Polish and foreign culture from his own position of loner and emigrant in Dresden while the country faces at the time the imminent prospect of territorial fragmentation. The article attempts to interpret the intricate mechanism of changes in Polish mentality and culture which Kraszewski identified as resulting from territorial partitioning of Poland.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 213-230
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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