The Polish case : ultraorientalism or the anamorphosis of introducing oneself

This article is a prosodion for a deepened analysis of orientalism and nested orientalism applied to the Polish case. I explicitly use a term coming from the ancient theatre vocabulary, because I will refer to several scenes, acting as a kind of Levi-Straussian bricoleur who needs to invent new tools to describe in a non descriptive way, represent in a non-representive way and introduce trying to respect someone's droit au secret (using Derrida’s expression the right of secrecy). These scenes will only create a patchwork for the dramaturgy of auto-presentation that Edward Said claimed for the Orient. In my study I will experimentally displace Poland from the logocentric position occupied by Europe (albeit middle or east Europe) and perform a translation of that easterness into orientalism. In this "song before the road" (which is the etymological meaning of prosodion) the results will only be hypothetical. We will not move further than the first meeting when we get to know each other. Even though the politics of the proper name with all its complexities revealed by poststructuralism, marxism, postmodernism etc. will not allow a step further and will keep the Polish case in a position characterized by some inbetweeness of Europe and Orient - a nowhere from which, struggling against domination, it disputes its right to (re)present itself.