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Article: Literary images of Galicia in 1846: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Polish nation.
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- Germano-Slavica
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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In the history of Galicia, Polish territory ceded to Austria after the Partitions of Poland, (1) the year 1846 became a caesura that influenced Polish views on how to regain the cultural capital to preserve a distinctive Western identity for Polish culture despite the loss of the nation. Traditionally, Galicia, as the largest Austrian province, (2) played a special role in constructing Polish identity and culture in the nineteenth century. Its citizens created their own kind of Polishness and became the dominant "imagined community" (3) for Polish culture well into the twentieth century. Compared to the Polish regions ceded to Prussia and Russia, Galicia became for many ...