Absent Culture

The book forms a monograph of the local culture of the old Polish Livonia, practically absent in contemporary humanistic research. It includes historical and anthropological recapitulation of the phenomenon and describes cultural mechanisms of border situations on actual example.

Autorentext

Krzysztof Zajas, PhD in Polish Studies; asst. Professor in the Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University Krakow; specialized in modern Polish Literature, borderland research, cultural and postcolonial studies of Central Europe; editor of the Gustaw Manteuffel's Selected Works.

Zusammenfassung
«This monograph stands as an important contribution to literary and historical scholarship on Livonia/Latgale, both in the conventional context of a Polish periphery and in its novelty in presenting it as a geo-historical region in its own right. It will provide a foundation for further research into the unique lattice of German(ic), East and West Slavic, and Baltic cultures which converge in this region.»
(Catherine Gibson, Central Europe Apr. 2015)

Inhalt
Contents: The re-creation of a nonexistent land German history of Livonia: the conquistador complex Polish history of Livonia: Nowhereland Formative historiography Historical project Livonia Borderlands: circulation of discourses Polish-Livonian literature.