„Każda rodzina potrzebuje swojego imienia oraz swojej pamięci” – pamięć i zapominanie w literackim obrazie Hajnówki na przykładzie prozy Michała Androsiuka

• Authors: Sawicka-Mierzyńska, Katarzyna

Title variants

PL

“Each Family Needs a Name and a Past” – Remembering and Forgetting in Literary Representation of Hajnówka in Michał Androsiuk’s Fiction

Abstracts

EN

The article offers the reading of Michał Androsiuk’s "Biały koń", "Wagon drugiej klasy" in the context of remembrance, addressing the question of identity of Belarusians in Podlasie region. A borderland town of Hajnówka becomes the place where individual and collective memory, History, and imagination intersect. Finally, it appears that the long-lasting cohesive national identity, while grounded on false premises, might prove to be more tempting or convenient than the complex, equivocal frontier past.

Keywords

EN

memory; identity; Belarusians; borderland; Podlasie; Michał Androsiuk

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
• Journal: Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Sawicka-Mierzyńska, Katarzyna

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/5343

DOI

10.15290/bsl.2016.08.05