Awaria cmentarza

• Authors: Przemysław Czapliński

Title variants

EN

Cemetery breakdown

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the breakdown of Polish cemetery culture based on the literature of the last quarter century. The cause of the “breakdown” is a model of narcissistic cemetery formed after World War II; it mainly includes the dead worthy of commemoration, or the Poles who died acceptable death, and it excludes the ethnic strangers and unworthy form of death. However, the actions taken after 1989 for the sanctification of the dead Jews proved that death with dignity may also exist outside the narcissistic cemetery. In response, the Polish funerary community creates hysterical cemetery. In this cemetery, the society incorporates odious aspects of death into the mourning culture. The “abominable” content gives the basis for the establishment of the impure cemetery, which may include the death of the excluded, but is extended to the entire living space.

Keywords

PL

kultura pogrzebowa; cmentarz narcystyczny; cmentarz histeryczny; cmentarz nieczysty

EN

funeral culture; narcissistic cemetery; hysterical cemetery; impure cemetery

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4(7)
• Pages: 195-208

Dates

published

2014-06-02

Contributors

author

Przemysław Czapliński

• Uniwersytet im. Adam Mickiewicza w Poznaniu