Open AccessRzeczy wypędzone, rzeczy oswojone, rzeczy eksponowane. Próba wstępnej kategoryzacji
Author(s) -
Magdalena Izabella Sacha
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
acta universitatis wratislaviensis. prace kulturoznawcze
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0860-6668
DOI - 10.19195/0860-6668.22.4.2
Subject(s) - repatriation , exhibition , categorization , focus (optics) , semiotics , population , sociology , art , political science , art history , philosophy , law , epistemology , demography , physics , optics
Things expelled, things tamed, things exhibited: An attempt to pre-categorizeThe article aims at analyzing the status of material things whose function has changed due to changes of borders between Poland and Germany and the population transfer i.e. repatriation and expulsion after 1944. By using the Greimas semiotic square, I categorize artefacts along two axes: familiarity–otherness and mobility–immobility. I mainly focus on the musealization of things at the exhibitions in Poland and Germany concerning war and postwar resettlements.