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A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is,
the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of
Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.
Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as
well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume
offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a
diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical
approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national
and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader
context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern
European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the overseas
immigrant communities. The authors, renowned scholars from Europe
and the United States, thus demonstrate that an understanding of
modern Polish identity means crossing not only historical but also
geographical boundaries. Consequently, the narrative on Polish
identity that unfolds in the volume is a personalized and
multivocal one that presents the perspectives of a wide range of
subjects: peasants, workers, migrants, ethnic and sexual
minorities-that is, all those actors who have been absent in grand
national narratives. As such, the examination of Polishness sheds
light on the identity question more broadly, emphasizing the
interplay of pluralizing and homogenizing tendencies, and fostering
a reflection on national identity as encompassing both sameness and
difference.
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