Mit polityczny, czyli porządek polskiego dyskursu

• Authors: Martyna Dziadek

Title variants

EN

The Political Myth or the Order of Polish Discourse

Abstracts

EN

Historical politics play a crucial role in the creation of Polish national identity and often result in extreme and dangerous nationalism. It was Edward W. Said who had pointed out in his work entitled Culture and Imperialism that the interpenetration of politics and culture seems to be alarming. The main focus of this paper will be the contemporary text of culture in the lens of Polish (ergo: national-liberating) political discourse; thus Maria Janion’s statement about the life span of the messianic topic in Poland will be maintained. It is not hard to notice that the Polish culture is overflowing with images of sacrificing lives in the name of the fatherland which reinforces the normative paradigm of masculinity based on honor and rigidity. The mainstream production directed by Jerzy Zalewski which tells the story of Mieczysław „Rój” Dziemieszkiewicz (regarded as one of the cursed soldiers) seems to be a symptomatic example of a cultural text permeated with a solid worldview full of Polish martyrology axioms rooted in the era of Romanticism. The author of this text will employ a Montaignian approach to understand why historical figures are needed by Polish politicians to create a national identity and often gain a mythical status of supremacy. In this case, „guerrilla semiotics” introduced by Umberto Eco will be needed to decode the axioms and paradigms hidden under this visual text of culture. It seems to be dubious that the extension of anti-communist war discourse from 1944 to the Polish political arena subserves the formation of an inclusive community.

Keywords

EN

political myth; nationalism; martyrology; cursed soldiers; the order of Polish discourse

• Publisher: Ośrodek Badawczy Facta Ficta
• Journal: Facta Ficta. Journal of Theory, Narrative & Media
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 31-47

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Martyna Dziadek

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

• https://orcid.org/0000000349434590

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1968565