THE REPRESENTATION OF THE OTHER IN FOREIGN TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS OF BELARUS
Journal: Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philoligy
Year: 2018

The current article aims at analyzing foreign tourist guides of Belarus published during 1994-2016 through the lens of postcolonial theory. It presents ideological predispositions of the colonial discourse; demonstrates that in the analyzed guides cultural colonialism is represented by the motifs of (1) victimity, (2) backwardness, (3) isolation and marginality, (4) inability of the colonial Other for self-representation (or the motif of imperceptibility). The article also demonstrates the narra