Artykuły
Things expelled, things tamed, things exhibited: An attempt to pre-categorize
The article aims at analyzing the status of material things whose function has changed due to changes of borders between Poland and Germany and the population transfer i.e. repatriation and expulsion after 1944. By using the Greimas semiotic square, I categorize artefacts along two axes: familiarity–otherness and mobility–immobility. I mainly focus on the musealization of things at the exhibitions in Poland and Germany concerning war and postwar resettlements.