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Szkaradnik K.

Anthropos?

2017

issue 26 Podróż do źródła

66-81

The article focuses on the reception of Memoir of an old teacher by Jan Kubisz (1848-1929), a cult book in Cieszyn Silesia, including remembrances from the period when the national polish movement in that region developed. The authoress considers in what sense Memoir can be treated as a source. It turns out to be not only a historical and ethnographical source, a narrative which contributes to the ideological discourse on the national "rebirth", a source of inspiration for local literature, but mainly a source of identity for the Polish minority, which stayed after 1920 in the piece of Cieszyn Silesia assigned to Czechoslovakia (Zaolzie). Moreover, Kubisz himself returns as a teacher to his sources, that is to the country, in order to share his knowledge with his countrymen. Yet, he also reaches for a source understood as a traditional local community to make it an example of coexistence, as well as for rhetorical biblical patterns which serve his reasoning. At the same time, the sources of Kubisz' thought are very particular, embedded in regional culture and language. Above all else, however, the authoress shows in what meaning Memoir can be an inspiring source now and not only in Zaolzie: the book restores faith in the sense of acting together for the benefit of community, acting which can alter social reality, but also improve ourselves.

Film Returns to Silesia

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Copik I.

Anthropos?

2017

issue 26 Podróż do źródła

53-65

The aim of the article is the analysis of the issue of the place, local identity, individual memory in the most recent Silesian movies: My Niemandsland (directed by Wojciech Królikowski, 2016) and Stars (directed by Jan Kidawa-Błoński, 2017). In those works draw attention different perspective on Silesia as geocultural region and originality of approach to the subject of locality, which suggest wider interpretation - the change of attitude that takes place in contemporary cultural representations. There is visible not only a tendency to overcome the stereotypes, but also placing emphasis on 'borderland' as a feature of a space and as a syndrome of a particular psycho-cultural attitude characteristic for citizens of 'borderland'. The way of presenting of Silesianity in the analysed films depicts critical approach to the place, taking into account features necessary to its opening, inner dynamics and processuality (constant expansion).

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