Dyskurs kresowy i kwestia Innego - wokół Chełmszczyzny
The Borderlands Discourse and the Question of the Other – on Chełmszczyzna

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Chełmszczyzna, the borderland region rarely discussed in the framework of the Polish studies on the borderlands. The author considers different kinds of writing: literary works, memoirs, reportages as well as academic historical studies; majority of which comes from the turn of the 19th century. Assuming the semiotic and postcolonial perspective, he poses several questions as to who are the inhabitants of this region for their authors – people from faraway cultural centres? To what extent do they personify national ideologies, political and religious discourses which by granting identity to one, ultimately identify the other? The article is divided into the following parts: introductory notes, The Other in the field and in the tavern 2. The Intertextual Other 3. The Alien.

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