17 articles in this issue
Jolanta Sujecka
Introductory CommentsThe second issue of the annual journal “Colloquia Humanistica”, published in the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is a continuation of the themes presented in the first volume. The former issue focused on... see more
Ewa Lukaszyk
Why Minor, Not Major?Even if the probability that some of these languages might one day be reborn from the ashes and reintroduced to everyday communication is very low, we still need to preserve at least some trace of humanity’s linguistic diversity. It i... see more
Leszek Drong
Post-Traumatic Realism: Representations of History in Recent Irish NovelsThe aim of my essay is to describe major tendencies in contemporary Irish prose writing concerned with historical and political issues. The diversity of the themes and attitudes to t... see more
Aniela Korzeniowska
"Scotland Small? Our Multiform, Our Infinite Scotland Small?" Scotland's Literary Contribution to the Modern WorldHugh MacDiarmid’s poem "Scotland Small?" (1943) questions the widespread opinion at the time that Scotland was only a small country geographi... see more
Aleksandra Geller
“Di Ufgabn Fun Yidishizm”. Debates on Modern Yiddish Culture in Interwar PolandModern secular Yiddish culture reached the peak of its development during the 1920s and Poland was at that time one of the main centres where Yiddish literature, theatre, press... see more
Is There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor VoicesThe article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of... see more
Irena Sawicka
A Crossroad Between West, East and Orient – The Case of Albanian CultureAlbania is a unique example of authentic mentally-coded multiculturalism. The influence of a certain type of culture on believes shared by all Albanians is connected with either a spe... see more
Marjan Markovik'
The Aromanian Farsheroti Dialect – Balkan PerspectiveThe focus of our interest is the analysis of the Aromanian Farsheroti speech from the Ohrid-Struga region, which has never been a subject of a separate linguistic analysis. This speech is described in c... see more
Izabela Olszewska
Cultural Identity of Citizens of Gdansk from an Ethnolinguistic Perspective on the Basis of Chosen Texts of the Free City of DanzigAs a consequence of the First World War and in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles the Free City of Danzig was established.... see more
Ines Ackermann
"...So I Decided to Be a Pole..."Conclusions like the one in the headline had been given by several of my interviewees when being asked about their own ethnic identity. But the respondents are no inhabitants of Poland, they live in the Western parts of Be... see more
Justyna Olko,John Sullivan
Empire, Colony, and Globalization. A Brief History of the Nahuatl LanguageThis paper is the first attempt to outline the cultural and sociopolitical history of Nahuatl, one of the most important native languages of America, beginning with preconquest time... see more
Aleksandra Bergier
Contemporary Slavery and the Struggle for Self-Determination: The Case of the Guaraní People from the Bolivian ChacoFor over a century, the Bolivian Guaraní people have been subjected to infrahuman treatment which involved practices such as slavery, force... see more
Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska
The Fest-noz: a Way to Live Breton CultureThe history of the Breton language and culture of the XX and XXI century is narrated through the fest-noz phenomenon story. Fest-noz (‘night festival’) is a meeting where people dance in groups to live folk music ... see more
Krzysztof Usakiewicz
The Greek Phyllada and the Old Serbian Alexander RomanceThe texts presents chosen fragments of the Greek "Phyllada", or the story about Alexander the Great, and its Polish translation, with an introduction commenting the relation between the Greek and Ser... see more
"In the Pleats of Great Languages": Minor Romance Literatures in EuropeThis text is a review of the book: „Literatury mniejsze” Europy romanskiej, Miroslaw Loba, Barbara Luczak, Alfons Gregori (eds), Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznan 2012, 236 pp.
Magdolna Balogh
Hungarians and Jews. An Important Monograph with DeficitThe texts is a critical review of the book: Géza Komoróczy: The History of the Jews in Hungary I-II., Kalligram, Pozsony, 2012. 1230 and 1213 pp.
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