Dionizjusz Czubala is one of the most important contemporary Polish folklorists; his research pertains to the occupational folklore of potters and various forms of oral narratives. Among his works of ...particular value are his field studies concern- ing urban legends conducted in Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Mongolia, reports from which were published in the “FOAFtale News” bulletin, and research on memoirs connected with the Holocaust, published in the book O tym nie wolno mówić... Zagłada Żydów w opowieściach wspomnieniowych ze zbiorów Dionizjusza Czubali, 2019 (We Are Not Allowed to Speak about It... The Extermination of the Jews in Memoirs from the Collection of Dionizjusz Czubala). He is the author of numerous monographs and collections of folklorist texts, including: Folklor garn- carzy polskich, 1978 (The Folklore of Polish Potters); Podania i opowieści z Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego. Sto lat temu i dzisiaj, 1984 (Legends and Stories from the Dąbrowa Basin. A Hundred Years Ago and Today); Opowieści z życia. Z badań nad folklorem współczesnym, 1985 (Stories from Life. From Research on Contemporary Folklore); Nasze mity współczesne, 1996 (Our Contemporary Myths); Polskie legendy miejskie. Studium i materiały, 2014 (Polish Urban Legends. Study and Materials).
In the present article I would like to analyse the way in which the fam¬ily and their meals (what they eat and how they eat) are pictured in Pan Kuleczka stories’ series by Wojciech Widłak. Both ...eating and the variety of dishes have nowadays become a sort of supermetaphor, which involves different spheres of hu¬man activity. In a realistic convention chosen by Widłak, food is a part of everyday adventures of the story protagonists; it is their pleasure, an innocent weakness, a kind of consolation, a great metaphor of love in the family, always expressing an experience of the balance in family life. In my interpretation of the stories I will use concepts of eros and agape and apply basic terms of Jonathan Haidt’s theory of moral psychology.
This article aims to present the image of the Silesian women emerging from the novels by Anna Dziewit-Meller (Góra Tajget Mount Taygetus, Od jednego Lucypera All Because of One Lucifer). The analysis ...and interpretation focused on the category of silence inscribed in the studied text allow the author to draw conclusions about the complicated family relationships of women, marked by the twentieth-century history of Upper Silesia. In the article, the author posits a thesis about silence as an immanent trait of Dziewit-Meller’s protagonists, and asks whether they have a chance of breaking out of the circle of traumas passed down in their families.
In today’s Central Europe ethnolinguistic nationalism is the region’s standard normative ideology of statehood creation, legitimation and maintenance. This ideology proposes that in spatial terms, ...the area of the use of national language X should overlap with the territory of nation-state X, in which all members of nation X should reside. In terms of cultural policy, this means that only works written by “indubitable” members of nation X in language X can be seen as belonging to culture X. This self-limiting pattern of ethnolinguistic “purity” (homogeneity) excluded from 20th century Polish literature much of traditional Polish-Lithuanian culture and numerous authors writing in other post-Polish-Lithuanian languages than Polish. Democratization that followed the fall of communism in 1989 partly transcended this ethnolinguistic exclusion, but the old national policy has been back since 2015.
This article discusses narrative strategies of resistance in postcolonial literature in the context of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s work on minor literature. The predominant question is ...whether there is an affinity between Deleuzian thought and the problems of post-colonial theory. Some answers can be found in the book Deleuze and the Postcolonial, edited by Simone Bignall and Paul Patton. The use of language by minor literature has also been discussed in relation to Jacques Derrida’s reflections on the appropriation of foreign languages and monolingualism. The aim of this article is to ponder first, why post-colonial literature has been regarded as “minor” in the sense proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and second, how it uses the many potentialities offered by language to express subaltern experiences and identities.
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