Rethinking Modern Polish Identities

Introduction: Polishness. A Story of Sameness and DifferenceAgnieszka PasiekaPart One: Redefining Polishness1: The Birth of the "Polak-Katolik"Brian Porter-Sz¿cs 2: Vita Magistra Historiae? The Case of A. B.Pawe¿ Bukowiec 3: An Anti-ImperialCivilizingMission: ClaimingVolhynia for the Early Second RepublicKathryn Ciancia 4: Suspicious Origins as a Category of Polish CultureIrena Grudzi¿ska-Gross 5: Redefining Polishness through JewishnessGeneviève Zubrzycki Part Two: Identity in the Making6: Human Mobility and the Creation of a Transatlantic Polish CultureKeely Stauter-Halsted 7: "Good Americans" and Polish Modern Identity Construction after World War IKrystyna Lipi¿ska Illakowicz 8: From "True Believers" to "Cultural Feminists": Polish Identity and Women's Emancipation in post-1945 and post-1989 PolandMagdalena Grabowska 9: Labor, Gender, and Interethnic Relations among Polish-American Communities in Rural MassachusettsAgnieszka Pasieka 10: Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe: Transnational Constructions of National IdentityMarysia Galbraith Part Three: Portraits and Performances11: Views of Polishness: Style and Representation in Local and National ExhibitionsMägorzata Litwinowicz12: Plebeian, Populist, Post-Enlightenment-Mass Sarmatism and Its Political FormsPrzemys¿aw Czapli¿ski13: The Polish Connection: Lithuanian Music and the Warsaw Autumn FestivalLisa Jakelski14: Performing Polishness Abroad: (Non-)Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European CinemaKris Van Heuckelom15: "Poles-Their Own Portraits" Revisited: Taking a Critical StandRyszard Kozio¿ek Afterword: Polishness. A Time of Deconstruction, a Time of ReconstructionPawe¿ RodakEditors and Contributors Index