Based on the experience of spatial confusion and inadequacy common during visits to uncommemorated sites of violence, the authors propose expanding the topological reflection in the research on the spatialities of the Holocaust, as well as to introduce topology into the analysis of the everyday experiences of users of the postgenocidal space of Central and Eastern Europe. The research material is composed of hand-drawn maps by Holocaust eyewitnesses – documents created both in the 1960s and in recent years. The authors begin by summarizing the significance of topology for cultural studies, and provides a state-of-the-art reflection on cartography in the context of the Holocaust. They then proceed to interpret several of the maps as particular topological testimonies. The authors conclude by proposing a multi-faceted method of researching these maps, “necrocartography”, oriented by their testimonial, topological and performative aspects.
The chapter discusses colonial strategies underlying landscape representations of the Regained Territories in the literature of the Polish People’s Republic. These regions, incorporated into Poland after 1945, were at the centre of Polish (and socialist) spatial imaginary, functioning as a mythical place of the origin of Polish statehood and a space of utopian fantasies of a new socialist society, established through state-driven settlement. Foreign landscape, in fact marked by German influence, was to be “recovered” or, rather more accurately, “repossessed,” in practice—Polonised/colonised. Hence, I discern here mechanisms of aestheticisation (ideologisation) of the landscape that oscillated around two basic categories: (1) popular topoi of terra nullius and (2) the specific poetics of familiarity, developed by Jan Bułhak (one of the most influential founders of Polish modern photography) in his pre-war works from the Eastern Borderlands (Kresy)—the space of centuries-old Polish expansion. In the analytical part of the chapter, I focus on how the Eastern Borderlands landscape migrates into western spaces and new ideological and literary contexts, as well as on how Eastern Borderlands colonial tradition functions here as a template for “domestication” of a new Western Borderland.
Kinga Siewior -dr, literaturoznawczyni, współpracowniczka Katedry Antropologii Literatury i Badań Kulturowych oraz członkini Ośrodka Badań nad Kulturami Pamięci na Wydziale Polonistyki UJ. Zajmuje się geopoetyką i kulturowymi studiami nad migracjami oraz środkowoeuropejskimi politykami i poetykami pamięci. Ostatnio opublikowała książkę Wielkie poruszenie. Pojałtańskie narracje migracyjne w kulturze polskiej (2018).
1.Regionalizm na gruncie polskim wydaje się w pierwszej chwili pojęciem co najmniej ryzykownym. Na poziomie języka potocznego nasuwa skojarzenia z prowincjonalnością, zaściankowością lub folkloryzmem ewokowanym przez takie metafory jak skansen lub rezerwat. W ujęciu historycznym odsyła bądź do zjawisk formalnie i ideowo anachronicznych (jak poezja krajowego romantyzmu czy "antycywilizacyjna" twórczość grupy Czartak), bądź do nieraz emfatycznych stylizacji ludowych (vide młodopolska estetyzacja Podhala). Jako nazwa tendencji literackiej wyraża skrystalizowany w latach 20. program kulturalno-polityczny podporządkowany emancypacji obszarów zacofanych, która miała przebiegać przy jednoczesnym wytwarzaniu efektu integralności terytorium odrodzonego po zaborach II państwa polskiego. Ta, na pierwszy rzut oka pozostająca w sprzeczności z sensem literalnym pojęcia, unifikująca i w swych założeniach nacjonalistyczna
(1941)(1942)(1943)(1944)(1945) and the memory of the last Balkan War (1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995). Local historical context determines the uniqueness of Croatian experiences and conditions its asymmetric char-
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