ABSTRACT

This article explores the significance of orientalism as a cultural phenomenon in Polish literature and culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Intervening in a long-standing debate about whether orientalism in Poland was an original phenomenon or a ‘derivative and imitative’ discourse, the article offers close readings of two cultural phenomena that show that the application of such binaries is overly reductive. Rather, orientalist inspirations in Poland were multi-layered: inspiration from western European orientalism mixed with Poland’s own historical ‘easternness’, especially in the heterogeneous contact zone of what is now Ukraine. Analysis of Edward Raczyński’s (1786–1845) 1821 account of his journey to Turkey, and of the life and cultural legend of Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (1784–1831), shows that Ukraine was a site of overlapping orientalist projections in the Polish cultural imagination in the decades following the Partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

摘要

本文探讨东方主义作为一种文化现象在 19 世纪初波兰文学和文化中的意义。这篇文章介入了一场关于波兰东方主义是一种原始现象还是一种“衍生和模仿”话语的长期争论，对两种文化现象进行了仔细解读，表明这种二元论的应用过于简化。相反，波兰的东方主义灵感是多层次的：来自西欧东方主义的灵感与波兰自身的历史“东方性”相结合，尤其是在现在乌克兰的异质接触区。分析 Edward Raczyński (1786–1845) 1821 年关于他的土耳其之旅以及 Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (1784–1831) 的生活和文化传奇的记述，