(NIE-)POWROTY. ESEJ O DOŚWIADCZENIU I PAMIĘCI ROKU 1945
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Słowa kluczowe

(non-)returns
war trauma
public history
commemorative landscape
politics of history
the memory of 1945
new myths
shortened perspectiven

Abstrakt

The study brings up sensitive problems of the contemporary Polish history, revealing some mechanisms of historical discourse in the public space. Refl ection on the historical memory, the war trauma and the problem of shortened perspective puts emphasis on the absence of alternative narrations around such categories as: nation, Catholic Church, patriotism, the left, polish Jews. Th is issue is associated with the question of contemporary historical research and the politics of history shaping collective memory in Poland.

https://doi.org/10.14746/ht.2017.6.08
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