De la germanité par un Slave. Les stéréotypes dans Mon Allemagne d'Andrzej Stasiuk

Abstract

The paper addresses the question of stereotypes found in a book Mon Allemagne (original title: Dojczland) published by Andrzej Stasiuk in 2007 and translated into French by Charles Zaremba in 2010. Adopted methods were borrowed from theoretical papers by Jerzy Bartmiński devoted to semantic stereotypes related to nationality. The analysis presents selected components of a stereotypical image of Germany and Germans, confronted with a personal view of the author and with stereotypes shared by his fellow countrymen. His perceptive eye enables the author to grasp a wide array of premises (more or less justified) acting as constitutive elements of stereotypes present in relations between Poles and Germans. The observed linguistic phenomena confirm the hypothesis that the major cause of stereotype viability is the historical factor. Despite geographical proximity and intense contacts, this factor can hardly ever be negligible.