The Other and Foreign Categories in Maria Konopnicka’s “Pan Balcer w Brazylii”

Daniel Kalinowski

doi:10.18778/8331-033-6

The Other and Foreign Categories in Maria Konopnicka’s “Pan Balcer w Brazylii”

Daniel Kalinowski

Pomeranian University, Faculty of Philology, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Kashubian-Pomeranian Research

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-0642 (unauthenticated)

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Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Series: Series Ceranea

Pages: 313-325

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.22

Keywords: migracja, migracja etnosu serbskiego w XVI-XIII wieku, historia Słowian południowych zachodnich wschodnich, asymilacja, emigracja w literaturze

Published: 30 December 2022

Categories: History, Open Access

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The article concerns the descriptive poem by Maria Konopnicka Pan Balcer w Brazylii, which is interpreted in two anthropological categories: Other and Foreign. A leading role in the work of national awakening in Polish peasants is the factor that leads to the identification of identity motives: first a meeting and then a conflict between familiarity and otherness. The article discusses the relations between a Polish peasant and a German colonist, Polish Catholicism vs. “non-Polish” Protestantism, the Polish community vs. the black Brazilian community, the uniformity of the village cluster vs. the unrecognizability of Brazilian clusters. The description of Konopnicka’s work from the perspective of the category of literary anthropology leads to a postcolonial discourse, which – although not implemented in the foreground – is still visible in the projections and cultural complexes of the literary subject.

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Kalinowski, Daniel. 2022. “The Other and Foreign Categories in Maria Konopnicka’s ‘Pan Balcer W Brazylii’”. In Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, edited by Zofia A. Brzozowska, Piotr Kręzel, and Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, 10:313-25. Series Ceranea. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.22.