BORDERLAND POETIC VISIONS: BOHDAN I. ANTONYCH, JERZY HARASYMOWICZ AND JANUSZ SZUBER
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2017, Vol 301, Issue 289
Abstract
Living in the interstitial space of a borderland necessarily engenders bilingual, bicultural, and binational reality. To talk about borderland people oftentimes means to touch on the issues of identity and transgression, which implies the necessity to embrace the Other. In the end, the borderland place itself dictates its own text and imposes on its inhabitants a unique cultural geography. This paper focuses on one such place, namely the southeast corner of Poland, as seen through the eyes of three Slavic poets, one Ukrainian (Bohdan Ihor Antonych) and two Polish (Janusz Szuber and Jerzy Harasymowicz), each belonging to a different literary epoch but all being inspired by the experience of cultural contact in the ethnically diverse territory. Bieszczady, the Polish name for a mountain range in Western Galicia that extends into Ukraine and Slovakia, also known as a homeland of the Lemkos, an ethnic subgroup of Ukrainians that was forced to resettle to the formerly German lands in the north and west of Poland shortly after World War II, has a different meaning for each of the three poets under scrutiny, but their representations and/or acknowledgment of the Other is clearly manifested in their oeuvre, and it is my intention to pinpoint similarities and/or differences in their borderland poetic visions. I argue that their poetry reflects an unparalleled richness of cultural geographies characteristic of the borderland region.
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M. G Rewakowicz
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