Bulgarian Studies in the Mirror of Emerging Black Sea Studies: A Plea for Relocation
Journal: Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie
Year: 2022

The paper argues that Bulgarian studies should be divorced from the paradigms of Slavic, Balkan and European studies and be relocated, in order to let the discipline articulate suppressed historical perspectives and achieve better standing within a global distribution of academic labour. The author analyses a recent collective volume in Black Sea studies (‘The Black Sea as a Literary and Cultural Space’, 2019) and discerns some research perspectives that are worth adopting for the mentioned relo