Peryferyjna samosterowność i ambiwalencja
Peripheral Self-Steering and Ambivalence

Summary/Abstract: In this paper Kubiak focuses on Sarmatian (or neo-Sarmatian) narratives to propose a new perspective onto phenomena related to Polish peripheral discourses. Peripheral and semi-peripheral discourses commonly lack autonomy because of their dependenceon the centre’s discourses. While discourses of resistance only tend to exacerbate that dependence, Kubiak works around the problem by proposing the category of anomaly as a starting point and key to reading local semi-peripheral particularities. Ambivalent dependencies and their narrations can be read as strategies of an abnormal “self-steering” that has its own rationality – one that can be deconstructed in a way that allows us to view it outside of the relation of dependence.

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