Obrońcy i ciemiężyciele, czyli o dualistycznym modelu historii chłopów (i niektórych jego niedostatkach z perspektywy historii literatury)
Defenders and Oppressors, or the Dualistic Model of Peasant History (and Some of Its Deficiencies from the Perspective of Literary History)

Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning, peasant studies in Poland have been an area of research determined to a particularly high degree by the socio-political context. These specific conditions for the development of this discipline have developed a characteristic narrative framework, which has a visible influence on the historiography devoted to peasants. One such schema is the dualistic division of old-Polish writers into defenders and ideological oppressors of the lowest estate, particularly noticeable in the 19th and 20th-century historical literary research. This paper is an attempt to describe and at the same time deconstruct this division, considered here as one that is ahistorical and therefore hinders in-depth research on the old-Polish discourse on the peasant state. The conclusions present several other ways to study old texts on the peasantry.

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