ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on certain historical connections between Poland and Southeast Asia in the context of (post)colonial and cultural studies. It attempts to connect several seemingly disjointed aspects of memory, identity, and geography. In particular, it focuses on the ambiguity of roles played by Poles in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century (personified by the examples of Joseph Conrad and Bronisław Piłsudski), which was influenced by the complex positioning of Polish identity vis-a-vis European empires—and the world.
