@article{Sadzikowska_2020, title={Zofia Kossak. Striking Roots – Górki Wielkie: People and Issues}, url={https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/article/view/LL.3.2019.001}, DOI={10.12775/LL.3.2019.001}, abstractNote={<p>2019 marks the 130th anniversary of Zofia Kossak’s birthday. The writer and her family “grew into” Górki Wielkie, a Silesian town in which they found home, shelter and paradise. After dramatic experiences during the Soviet revolution, and after losing her husband and family home in Kresy (Eastern Borderlands), Zofia Kossak needed peace, silence and respite to heal her broken heart. Górki Wielkie in Cieszyn Silesia, or as she wrote “the homeland of  bibliophiles”, turned out to be a perfect place to build a new safe home, an oasis of peace and tranquillity.</p><p>The author of <em>Krzyżowcy</em> (<em>Crusaders</em>) incorporated in her works everything that is the most beautiful and valuable in the Cieszyn region and the Silesian Beskids, i.e. faith, the scouting ideas of the town of Bucza, the rich variety of landscape and cultural characteristics, as well as the respect for residents who remained faithful to Poland despite their bad experiences over the centuries. Zofia Kossak, a resident of Górki Wielkie, consciously “grew into” regionalism in its proper understanding, which is particularly important in the case of Silesia.</p>}, number={3}, journal={Literatura Ludowa. Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture}, author={Sadzikowska, Lucyna}, year={2020}, month={Jan.}, pages={3–13} }