caa a22 4500 388048298 CHVBK 20180307125044.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0361233300006335 doi S0361233300006335 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0361233300006335 Cygan Mary E. Inventing Polonia: Notions of Polish American Identity, 1870-1990 [Elektronische Daten] [Mary E. Cygan] In the last quarter of the 19th century, the American Polish-language press began using the term Polonia to describe the imagined community of all Polish-speaking immigrants in the United States. Local Polish American settlements already bore neighborhood names. Where the Roman Catholic hierarchy permitted an ethnic Polish parish to form, Poles often designated the surrounding area — not only the parish buildings, but the whole network of neighborhood institutions and businesses — by the parish name followed by the suffix owo. By 1895, Poles in Chicago, for example, could read about news in different parts of the city nicknamed for local Polish-language parishes located there: Stanislawowo, Wojciechowo, Jadwigowo, Jackowo, and Michalowo. When speaking of all the Poles living in a single American city, Polonia could be used with a qualifier such as Chicago Polonia, Buffalo Polonia, or Milwaukee Polonia. But Polonia by itself referred to all Polish immigrants who were bound — or should have been, the writers insisted — by a shared notion of Polishness. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 209-246 0361-2333 23<209 1998 23 PTS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006335 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0361233300006335 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cygan Mary E. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Prospects Cambridge University Press 23(1998-10), 209-246 0361-2333 23<209 1998 23 PTS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge