ŚWIAT POLARNYCH NIEPRAWOŚCI: JAN WELZL WŚRÓD ESKIMOSÓW
Jan Welzl (1868-1948) was a Czech traveller, globetrotter, polar explorer, hunter, goldprospector and writer who lived on the New Siberian Islands for about 30 years. His memoirsand autobiographical accounts were written down with a help of the professional writers andjournalists (R. Těsnohlídek, B....
| Published in: | Studia et Documenta Slavica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Polish |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego
2020
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| Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/sds/article/view/2019 https://doi.org/10.25167/SetDS/2019/2/1 |
| Summary: | Jan Welzl (1868-1948) was a Czech traveller, globetrotter, polar explorer, hunter, goldprospector and writer who lived on the New Siberian Islands for about 30 years. His memoirsand autobiographical accounts were written down with a help of the professional writers andjournalists (R. Těsnohlídek, B. Golombek, E. Valenta) and became very popular in Czechoslovakia. The paper will be an attempt to reconstruct and analyze, on the basis of Welzl’s literarywork, his way of seeing the polar regions as a space where the biding social standards andregulations have been changed or suspended. Especially the Eskimo people are seen by Welzlas a social group in which the European behavioral patterns and European social norms (moral,ethical, sexual, etc.) are undermined or non-biding |
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