„Iskry w popiołach”, czyli o trwaniu i przemianie tradycji. Wokół debiutu Zygmunta Glogera

Abstract

The article looks at Gloger’s domestic travels as instances of performative practice, focusing on the earliest period of his activities and showing his debut as a certain process closely linked with his ethnographic journeys and personal relations with rural community. The analysis of Gloger’s debut as a publicist and “folk poet” presents him in a new light–not as a passionate collector and researcher, but as an ethnographer-performer, who tried to create new forms of folk tradition in the era of industrialization and a new model of rural community. Such early interests developed later into serious works and projects. It is in this context that the article considers a social and relational dimension of travel writing, Gloger’s relations with the “national” community, and domestic travel as a community-generating practice.