Bambo zrobił swoje
Abstract
The author analyses Tuwim’s "Bambo, the Black Boy" and tries to point to a number of
interpretative paradoxes that have accumulated around its multiple readings. Particular
attention is paid to the racial readings of the poem. What is more, the author discusses
a variety of contemporary contexts in which the famous poem functions; these are often
politically incorrect readings and interpretations which make no sense of the historical
context in which the work was originally written. The article offers a detailed analysis
of the origins of the poem and the circumstances in which found its way to the school
primer. The poem is seen as expressing the need for accepting otherness and fighting
cultural stereotypes.