Śląsk Opolski w polskiej literaturze pięknej okresu międzywojennego – przyczynek do pamięci kulturowej nowych (powojennych) mieszkańców regionu
Opole Silesia in the Polish literature of the Interwar period – a contribution to cultural memories of the new (postwar) inhabitants of region

Summary/Abstract: Works of literature and those belonging to the genre of literature of fact (reportage) written by Polish writers in the interwar period and dealing with Opole Silesia understood as the part of upper Silesia which remained within the borders of the Reich after the uprisings and the Plebiscite, make the subject of the present analysis. Both the works, whose plot is set in the years 1922–1939 and those presenting earlier historical events in this area have been taken into account. accordingly, in the chronological order, works by the following authors have been discussed: artur Gruszecki, Stefan Żeromski, prose writings from the collection Pisarze polscy Kresom Zachodnim(Polish Writers to Poland’s Western Lands), Gustaw Morcinek, Stefan Brodowski, Pola Gojawiczyńska, Zofia kossak, Jan Wiktor, Stanisław Wasylewski and kazimierz Gołba. abstracting from the trivial – in their decisive majority – pieces included in the collection of Polish Writers to Poland’s Western Lands, it can be concluded that the motifs that were most frequently exploited included Silesia’s historical ties with Poland, Silesian population’s firm adherence to their ancestors’ religion and language, local national activists’ endeavours to revive and/or cultivate the Polish national awareness, the Plebiscite and the Silesian uprisings, Poles’ hard lot behind the borderline (on the territory of the German state) who were subject to Germanization and repressions that grew more and more intensive along with Hitler’s growing more and more powerful. the motif of a high civilization level of everyday life in Opole Silesia was also present in the literature of the day.

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