„Nations and Stereotypes 25 Years After: New Borders, New Horizons” is a continuation of the celebrated monograph „Stereotypes and Nations”, in which representatives of different and often newly autonomus nations talked about their mutual and self-perceptions immediately after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Awareness of the changes which have taken place in Poland, Central Europe, as well as in other regions of the world in the last quarter of a century, inspired the volume’s authors to enquire whether our own views regarding ourselves and others have been modified. We asked whether recent geopolitical changes, together with the processes of globalisation and migration, as well as the recently re-emerging nationalist and xenophobic attitudes have affected national and ethnic auto- and heterostereotypes over the last twenty-five years. An international group of researchers has been invited to contribute to this volume and address this query. Their answers do not express steadfast opinions but are rather an invitation to a critical and multifaceted investigation of contemporary forms of stereotypical thinking.
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Robert Kusek, Jacek Purchla, Joanna Sanetra-Szeliga, When Stereotypes Change…
1. National Stereotypes: An Introduction
Ireneusz Krzemiński, Nations and Stereotypes
2. Them And Us: 25 Years After
Roman Baron, A Czech Portrait of Poland and the Poles (an Ambivalent Stereotype and a Positive Perception)
Dieter Bingen, The Germans’ Perception of Poland Twenty-Five Years Later
Leonid Gorizontov, Stereotypes of Mutual Perception in the Entangled Russian-Polish History: Some Historiographical Observations
Włodzimierz Karol Pessel, “We Shall Return Across the Sea”: The Danes and the Poles as Neighbours
Kazimierz Jurczak, On the Persistence of Stereotypes: Romania and the Romanians according to Contemporary Poles
Konrad Pędziwiatr, Islamophobia as a New Manifestation of Polish Fears and Anxieties
3. How Different Nations See Themselves and One Another: Mutual and Self-Portraits
Robert Pyrah, Reflections on the Role of History and “Cultural Memory” in Stereotyping: Some Examples from East-Central Europe
Tomasz Padło, White Spots in the Heart of Europe: Sketch Maps as a Source of Knowledge about the Perceptions of Central Europe
David Schriffl, From Dull Farmers to Heroes, from Arch-Enemies to Role Models: Austrians and Slovaks after World War II
Bronislav Ostřanský, Czech Islamophobia: The Manifestations, Paradoxes and Perception of Anti-Muslim Sentiments in the Czech Republic
Mykola Riabchuk, “Wonderful Slavonic People.” Russian Stereotypes of Ukrainians: From Imperial Imagination to Post-Imperial Reality
Bela Tsipuria, Past Stereotypes and the Future: A Georgian Case Study
Magdalena Dyras, Self-Stereotypes and How the Croats are Perceived by Other Nations
Shlomo Avineri, Mare Nostrum: Metaphor and Reality
4. Stereotypes in Culture
Wojciech Szymański, A Celluloid Souvenir: The Creation of Stereotypes by Means of Photography
Jakub Kornhauser, “We Romanians, whoaaaa, we’re Feisty.” Stereotypes of National Stereotypes in Contemporary Polish Literature:
Dorota Masłowska’s Play “A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians”
Alicja Żuchelkowska, Stereotypical Perception of the Other by Translators: A Case Study of Canadian Minority Literature
Gyula Lencsés, Inter- and Intranational Stereotypes on Both Sides of the Hungarian-Serbian Border and Their Representation, in Theatre Performances
Yudhishthir RajIsar, “Culture in EU External Relations”: Overcoming Stereotypical Stances
Biographical notes
Index of personal names