Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Polishness: A Story of Sameness and Difference

pp 1-16

Part One - Redefining Polishness

pp 17-18

One - The Birth of the “Polak-Katolik”

pp 19-36

Two - Vita Magistra Historiae? The Case of A. B.

pp 37-49

Three - An Anti-Imperial Civilizing Mission: Claiming Volhynia for the Early Second Polish Republic

pp 50-73

Four - Suspicious Origins as a Category of Polish Culture

pp 74-91

Five - Redefining Polishness through Jewishness?

pp 92-110

Part Two - Identity in the Making

pp 111-112

Six - Human Mobility and the Creation of a Transatlantic Polish Culture

pp 113-132

Seven - “Good Americans” and Polish Modern Identity Construction after World War I

pp 133-160

Eight - From “True Believers” to “Cultural Feminists”: Polish Identity and Women's Emancipation in Post-1945 and Post-1989 Poland

pp 161-190

Nine - Labor, Gender, and Interethnic Relations among Polish American Communities in Rural Massachusetts

pp 191-207

Ten - Being European in Poland and Polish in Europe: Transnational Constructions of National Identity

pp 208-234

Part Three - Portraits and Performances

pp 235-236

Eleven - Views of Polishness: Style and Representation in Local and National Exhibitions

pp 237-255

Twelve - Plebeian, Populist, Post-Enlightenment: Mass Sarmatism and Its Political Forms

pp 256-276

Thirteen - The Polish Connection: Lithuanian Music and the Warsaw Autumn Festival

pp 277-303

Fourteen - Performing Polishness Abroad: (Non-)Polish Actors and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in European Cinema

pp 304-323

Fifteen - “Poles–Their Own Portraits” Revisited: Taking a Critical Stand

pp 324-347

Afterword: Polishness: A Time of Deconstruction, a Time of Reconstruction

pp 348-358

Notes on the Contributors

pp 359-364

Index of Names

pp 365-372

Index of Subjects

pp 373-375