MOTIVES OF CULTURAL COLONIALISM IN FOREIGN TOURIST GUIDEBOOKS OF BELARUS
Journal: World of Russian-speaking Countries
Year: 2020

This article is devoted to the study of the specifics of the representation of Belarus and Belarus, recreated by foreign guides. The author considers foreign tourist guides to Belarus, published in 1994-2014, from the point of view of postcolonial theory and describes the ideological attitudes of colonial discourse, according to which Belarus is a passive object that is characterized by lack of development (backwardness), permanent dependence and victimhood. Such a representation strategy fits i