Published: 2020-11-01

Mythology of a borderland. 
Sygurd Wiśniowski on Australia and the United States

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Abstract

The article discusses the concept of ‘borderland’ in selected works by Sygurd Wiśniowski: a 19th century Polish traveller who encountered the territorial and cultural expansion of the white settlers in Australia and North America. The author of the article aims to present both the specificity and the complexity of ‘borderland phenomenon’ as described by Wiśniowski. The author concentrates also on absent or omitted elements in Wiśniowski’s discourse (which can be observed in his attitude towards the native inhabitants and women) and reveals Wiśniowski’s utopian ideas (such as equality of opportunity).

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Forajter, W. (2020). Mythology of a borderland. 
Sygurd Wiśniowski on Australia and the United States. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 17(1), 23–32. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10182

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016)
Published: 2020-11-02


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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