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Konteksty Kultury
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2021
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vol. 18
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issue 4
556-568
EN
The aim of the article is to present the ways, in which the Polish patriotic canon functions in Jacek Dehnel’s novel But With Our Dead Ones. In the first part, the author presents the connections between the enforcement of one – canonical, official – version of national identity and the upsurge of the nationalist attitudes in the modern Polish society depicted in the novel. In the second part, the author discusses the homogenizing strategies of adapting the Romantic legacy to the needs of nationalist ideology. The third part includes the analysis of the selected consequences of an uncritical approach to the Polish patriotic canon; and the interpretation of the allegoric tools used by Dehnel.
PL
Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sposobów funkcjonowania polskiego kanonu patriotycznego w powieści Jacka Dehnela Ale z naszymi umarłymi. W części pierwszej zaprezentowane zostają powiązania między forsowaniem jednej – kanonicznej, oficjalnej – wersji tożsamości narodowej a wzrostem postaw nacjonalistycznych we współczesnym społeczeństwie polskim zaprezentowanym w powieści. W drugiej omówione są strategie ujednoznaczniającego dopasowywania dziedzictwa romantycznego do potrzeb ideologii nacjonalistycznej. Trzecia część zawiera analizę niektórych wybrzmiewających w powieści konsekwencji bezkrytycznego podejścia do polskiego kanonu patriotycznego oraz interpretację zabiegów alegorycznych wykorzystanych przez Dehnela.
EN
This is a comparative analysis of the key ideas regarding nation-building in the writ-ings of Adam Mickiewicz and Patrick Pearse, who have gone down to history as icons of the Polish and Irish national revival. In the case of Mickiewicz the article focuses on Dziady – Część III (Forefathers’ Eve – Part III), Konrad Wallenrod, Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego (Books of the Polish Nation and Poland’s Pilgrimage); the Irish materials include Pearce’s dramas The King and The Singer as well as Theobald Wolfe Tone’s ‘Speech from the Dock’. A trope common to all of them is the concept of ‘a beauti-ful, awesome voice’ / ‘a traitorous song’: literature as a mighty force that can create a community dedicated to the national cause. A comparison of passages that articulate the messianic idea indicates that, though understood by either writer in his own way, they both envision it as a catalyst turning nation-building literature into an apotheosis of martyrdom and death – a process which could be described as axiological metabolism. The article also examines the paradoxes of the projections of the myth of national unity in the work of both writers, especially in Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz and Pearse’s short story ‘In My Garden’.
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