Open Access(NIE-)POWROTY. ESEJ O DOŚWIADCZENIU I PAMIĘCI ROKU 1945
Author(s) -
Robert Traba
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
historia @ teoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2450-8047
DOI - 10.14746/ht.2017.6.08
Subject(s) - patriotism , collective memory , contemporary history , historical memory , politics , perspective (graphical) , history , modern history , sociology , gender studies , ethnology , political science , humanities , art , law , ancient history , visual arts
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.