In the face of otherness, weakness, inferiority. Reading the prose of rural spaces

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to consider connection with contemporary reading the pose of rural spaces. The text contains observations based on nowadays tendencies in interpreting field including common practices of writing, reading and analyzing the cultural realization of rural theme. Important vehicle of recognition also occurs in the spatial cathegories of research. The new perspectives of cultural approximations, called „folk turn” or „plebeian turn” allow to find renewed ways of reading the heritage
stories and recovered new forms of solidarity with excluded persons. The interpretations of novels written by older and younger authors e.g. Wiesław Myśliwski, Marian Pilot, Anna Janko, Andrzej Stasiuk, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Maciej Płaza may be treated as examples of changes in traditional manner so far obligatory in Polish common identification processes.