„Każda rodzina potrzebuje swojego imienia oraz swojej pamięci” – pamięć i zapominanie w literackim obrazie Hajnówki na przykładzie prozy Michała Androsiuka
“Each Family Needs a Name and a Past” – Remembering and Forgetting in Literary Representation of Hajnówka in Michał Androsiuk’s Fiction

Summary/Abstract: The article offers the reading of Michał Androsiuk’s "Biały koń", "Wagon drugiej klasy" in the context of remembrance, addressing the question of identity of Belarusians in Podlasie region. A borderland town of Hajnówka becomes the place where individual and collective memory, History, and imagination intersect. Finally, it appears that the long-lasting cohesive national identity, while grounded on false premises, might prove to be more tempting or convenient than the complex, equivocal frontier past.

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