Kashubian Matters

Language, Literature, Education

Lucyna Warda-Radys, Justyna Galant

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847019220
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The volume shows the efforts of the Kashubians to preserve their linguistic and cultural heritage as well as the development of Kashubian literature. The contributors offer information about the Kashubian region and culture and present in-depth knowledge about the Kashubian language, contemporary Kashubian literature and the teaching of the Kashubian language and culture in three parts. Part I deals with the standardization of spelling in contemporary editions of older works, with the activities of the Council for the Preservation of Kashubian Language and Culture, with the translation of the Gda?sk legends from Polish into Kashubian and with word formation in Kashubian, in particular with the formation of women's names. Part II deals with the representation of the Kashubian region in the Polish-language works of R. Ostrowska and the developments in contemporary Kashubian fantasy literature. Part III contains a proposal for the inclusion of Kashubian culture in Polish language teaching for foreigners and summarizes the results of 30 years of Kashubian language teaching in Polish schools.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Lucyna Warda-Radys / Justyna Galant: The Kashubian region and culture – continuation and development
• Part I – Language
• Marek Cybulski: Standardisation of the Kashubian Language in the volumes of the Kashubian Writers’ Library
• Joanna Ginter: Activities of the Kashubian Language Council regarding the codification of Kashubian spelling
• Hanna Makurat-Snuzik: Literally translated idioms in the context of the unequal position of the source and target language. The case of the Kashubian translation of Jerzy Samp’s Gdańsk legends
• Izabela Milewska / Beata Milewska: Word formation of names of wives and daughters in Kashubian (in the first half of the 20th century)
• Part II – Literature
• Bartosz Dąbrowski: From myth to disillusionment. The image of Kashubia in the fiction of Róża Ostrowska
• Grzegorz Schramke: Into the future and alternative worlds. Kashubian fantasy, science fiction, and horror in book publications and periodicals
• Part III – Education
• Beata Milewska: An Encounter with Kashubian culture during a lesson of Polish as a foreign language: fishing traditions
• Justyna Pomierska: Thirty years of teaching Kashubian in a Polish school. Positive effects of Kashubian language education