Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.1.06
Anna Müller
This article analyzes the lives of a handful of women, who, after years of involvement in various military conflicts (from World War I to World War II), were sentenced to long prison sentences. Particularly, it explores the lives of Anna Neuman, Irena Tomalakwa, Elżbieta Zawacka, and Emilia Malessa from the perspective of the concept “postawa” which most of them acquired in the early years of their life while soldiering (postawa as a concept related to discipline). They understood it as a stand that they would take throughout their entire life. Hence, postawa was more than a social role. It was an attitude, something that they had to achieve throughout their lives, finally also something that guaranteed continuity in their lives. Their imprisonment fit the definition of postawa well and provided them with a chance to define their actions not as heroic acts of Polish patriots, but rather as an attitude to which they were socialized. Through the biographic history of these women, the Polish history of gender can be seen as dynamic (as dynamic as their postawa allowed them to be). In that sense, postawa may be treated almost as a quintessential transgression, which, depending on the situation, can be seen as a phenomenon that helps them cross many boundaries or adapt to circumstances. Paradoxically, it helps them define their space outside of narrowly defined terms of patriotism, heroism, or martyrology, but ultimately giving them a voice as Polish patriots.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.1.09
Aleksandra E. Banot, Jack J. B. Hutchens
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.1.08
Jodi Greig
This article, entitled “History, Nationalism, and Lesbian Cabaret: Agnieszka Weseli ‘Furja’ and Maria Konopnicka,” traces the role that nineteenth-century Polish Positivist author Maria Konopnicka has played in the twenty-first century Polish LGBT rights movement, as well as the backlash against her newfound status as an LGBT icon from nationalist factions. More specifically, I examine how activist-historian and performance artist Agnieszka Weseli-Furja has reimagined nineteenth-century queer and feminist history through her performances as Konopnicka as part of the lesbian cabaret troupe Barbie Girls. Through my analysis of her sketches collectively titled “From the Album of Maria Konopnicka,” I argue that Furja utilizes a form of feminist revisionist historiography to navigate the historical Konopnicka's ambiguous sexuality and her association with twentieth- and twenty-first-century Polish nationalism (often hostile to the LGBT community). Through these performances, Furja attempts to decouple patriarchy and heteronormativity from Polish national belonging, producing an alternative vision of Polish patriotism based in feminist community and same-sex desire.1
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.69.1.04
Diana Filar
In Karolina Waclawiak's novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms (2012), the Polish American immigrant narrator changes her name from the “too-Polish” Zosia to Anya, in order to “pass” as Russian and gain access to the titular social club. This attempt to pass as Russian—imbued with personal hopes for a sense of belonging and power—alludes to a history of tensions across American ethno-racial lines, while at the same time illuminating significant differences among Europeans otherwise presumed to be simply White. Anya's attempts to pass center around her gendered and sexualized embodiment, a step that then allows her to define her relationships to the United States and Poland by questioning, developing, and leveraging her new name in exchange for a new ethno-racialized identity. The novel's thematic and formal preoccupation with naming and names thus reflects the ways in which immigrants negotiate the interconnectedness of identity's multiple manifestations and forge identities on their own terms. The privilege of the choice to pass within and among Slavic ethnicities distinguishes texts like Twin Palms as the ancestral inheritors of a US-immigrant literary tradition while also marking the Whiteness of their protagonists. Anya's particular imagination of US-immigrant-selfhood is predicated on ethno-racial differentiation and gendered embodiment determined both by an overidentification premised on erasure and by distinction within the twenty-first-century American racialized milieu. Waclawiak's narrative deploys different strategies at the level of naming in order to circle around the issue of race while simultaneously centering the differences within post-Soviet Slavic White ethnicity.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.08
Ewa Barczyk
{"title":"Marie Curie: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works","authors":"Ewa Barczyk","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138625067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.05
Robert Bubczyk
{"title":"The Battle of Grunwald (1410) and Its Role in Shaping Collective Memory","authors":"Robert Bubczyk","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138619157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.03
Jack J. B. Hutchens
{"title":"Introduction: Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's The Teacher","authors":"Jack J. B. Hutchens","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":" 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138620409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.5406/23300841.68.4.10
A. Karcz
{"title":"Światowa historia literatury polskiej: Interpretacje [World history of Polish literature: Interpretations]","authors":"A. Karcz","doi":"10.5406/23300841.68.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/23300841.68.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":83231,"journal":{"name":"The Polish review","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138627086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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