Czym jest Polska? Historia na peryferiach

Abstract

This text is a discussion of the book A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022)—a volume edited by Katarzyna Fazan, Michal Kobialka, and Bryce Lease, which covers the history of Polish theater from the Old Poland period to the present day. As an aside, the author offers a reflection on the categories of peripherality and Polishness constructed in the book, noting their connection to the historical experience of political transition and the binary East–West opposition that emerges within it. It also brings out the possibility of thinking differently about Polishness in some of the texts, which, however, still represents only a potential, perhaps to be exploited in further research on Polish theater.

Keywords

• history of polish theater
• historiography
• political transition
• periphery