Published: 2020-12-15

At Home – Literary Image of Upper Silesia as Homely, 
but Untamed Borderlands Area

Karolina Pospiszil Logo ORCID

Abstract

Experience of living in borderlands is the most important Upper Silesian experience. Complicated geopolitical situation affects on Silesian history, local inhabitants’ identity, specific character of this place (periphery complex, pressure of ideological and cultural centres versus everyday relations with the Other, who often is homely and who is different from stereotypes disseminated by ideological centres are experienced here). Upper Silesia had to – and still has to – struggle with typical borderlands’ problems such as: borders’ inconstancy, feeling of homeliness, everyday relations with the Others, extreme ideologization, danger, fear, multiculturalism, other culture’s remains even after a resettlements and emigrations. All these problems are a great theme in literature about Upper Silesia, which is trying to describe and understand inconstancy and tragedy of the borderland.

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Pospiszil, K. (2020). At Home – Literary Image of Upper Silesia as Homely, 
but Untamed Borderlands Area. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 9(1), 215–234. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10677

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2012)
Published: 2020-12-22


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

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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