The article attempts to summarize the key, in the author’s opinion, threads of the contemporary border-science debate. The point of reference are: Polish literary-centricism, which assigns the main role to literature in shaping the national world-view canon, and the interwar borderland debate, defined by the then geopolitical situation and orientalizing tendencies. Contemporary reflection on Borderlands Studies is mainly focused on developing a more realistic picture of the role of the Borderlands in Polish history.
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