ABSTRACT
The chapter aims to explore the ways in which debates on postcolonialism have become integrated into the cultural wars which are fought in today’s Poland. The first section analyzes the notion of cultural war(s) as conceived in the contemporary cultural-studies/political-science literature. The author also discusses his own concept of “post-post-communism” as a social/political framework following post-communism. The subsequent sections use findings from the opening to explore disputes sparked by the idea of the nation. It is concluded that the rhetoric which these disputes utilize is largely reducible to the concept of the “genuine existence of the nation” as opposed to the “inauthentic existence” of the same.
