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Galicia : An Eastern or a Western Land? Remarks on Locating the Province in the Framework of the East-West Opposition

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dc.abstract.enThe article discusses the phenomenon of locating Galicia within dialectical tension between ‘East’ and ‘West’, that is, the categories of heavily ideologized cultural geography, which respectively symbolize ‘backwardness’ and ‘development’, ‘barbarism’ and ‘civilization,’ ‘chaos’ and ‘order.’ The categories in question go back to the Enlightenment. Since the creation of the province in question in 1772, Austrians justified the annexation of Polish lands by their civilizing mission, presenting Austria’s rule as a remedy for alleged backwardness of that ‘Eastern’ land. Such a strategy for decades has made newcomers and the Galicians themselves perceive the land in terms of notions imposed upon Galicia in order to adjust the region to the imperial policies and socio-political and cultural visions of the Habsburgs. Interestingly, these notions turned out to be susceptible to divergence interpretations and, over time, began to serve not only as a proof of ‘Easterness’ of Galicia and the necessity of civilizing mission in the province, but also as an evidence of Galicia’s ‘Westerness’ and its belonging to the same cultural circle as Vienna. The article delivers analysis of several examples of inscribing Galicia into the dichotomous system of meanings connected with ‘East’ and ‘West,’ from Josephinism fostered by Germanophone literature, to contemporary ideas of Polish and Ukrainian intellectuals treating Galician legacy as an entry-card to Europe.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorWierzejska, Jagoda
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-28T20:34:19Z
dc.date.available2024-01-28T20:34:19Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/153221
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationliterary studies
dc.publisher.ministerialIbidem-Verlag
dc.relation.bookImagined Geographies : Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014
dc.relation.pages51-85
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enGalicia
dc.subject.enimagined space
dc.subject.enEast-West distinction
dc.subject.entravel literature
dc.subject.enEnlightenment
dc.subject.enbackwardness
dc.subject.enHabsburg Empire
dc.subject.encontemporary Ukrainian literature
dc.subject.encontemporary Polish literature
dc.titleGalicia : An Eastern or a Western Land? Remarks on Locating the Province in the Framework of the East-West Opposition
dc.typeMonographChapter
dspace.entity.typePublication