Description

• Title:
  Theatre and Drama of Socialist Realism in the Context of Cryptotexts (Based on MKiS and WUKPPiW Material)
• Creator:
  Wiśniewska-Grabarczyk, Anna
• Contributor:
  University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century;
  psiutanka@poczta.onet.pl
• Description:
  The main goal of the article is to offer a description of cryptotexts of theatre staging handbooks and dramatic works created in Poland during the socialist realism period. A cryptotext is a secret text which is the result of a purposeful act of subterfuge. In the article, I present selected cryptotexts – reviews produced in the Ministry of Culture and Art (MKiS) and censorship reviews of the dramatic works submitted for evaluation to the Voivodship Control Bureau for Press, Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows (WUKPPiW). The archives contain evaluation of works which have been published in subsequent years as well as those which remained only in their draft form. Analysis of the evaluations of ministry officials reveal the mechanisms for allowing and withholding submitted dramatic works and a theatre staging handbook which shows the practices of publishing theatrical works. An analysis of different evaluations of the same text allows for a hypothesis that the main aim of cryptotexts was the evaluation of ideological correctness of submitted works. Despite this main function it is possible to point out specific passages in the statements by the WUKPPiW officials which are similar to statements of Ministry officials. In both cases the evaluation pertains to the content and the planned fulfilment of the work and plays mainly a didactic function.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  © Copyright by Authors, Łódź 2016; © Copyright for this edition by Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2016
• Date:
  2017.07.10;
  2016
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica;7;
  37
• Subject:
  censorship;
  cryptotext;
  post-war Polish theatre and drama
• Identifier:
  1505-9057;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/22136 ;
  2353-1908;
  10.18778/1505-9057.37.06
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  image