ROMANTYZM SŁOWACKI Z PERSPEKTYWY POSTKOLONIALNEJ (KONTEKSTY HISTORYCZNE I KULTUROWE)

This paper analyzes historical and cultural contexts of Slovak Romanticism. Slovak Romanticism is the key to understanding basic principles of modern Slovak identity. Du-ring Romantic nationalism, both ongoing stereotypes and an ethnic tension between the Slovaks and the Hungarians were created. It is encoded in the model where a vision of Hungarian cultural superiority and dominance as well as an image of the thousand year-lasting oppresion of the Slovaks in the multiethnic Hungarian Kingdom appears. This paper analyzes crucial works of Slovak literature from this perspective and it also points out 1) a transformation and a destruction of the class and Englightenment models of ethnic convergence, 2) the origination of ethnic tension and conflicts resulting in 1848 Revolution.