Toward a Critical Hermeneutics of “In-betweenness”: Re-reading Abdziralovich, Miłosz, and Kundera in the Times of the New Imperial War in Europe
Abstract: The article undertakes a critical examination of the relevance of interpreting Belarusian identity through the conceptual framework of being “in-between” East and West. In the aftermath of the 2020 protests in Belarus and the onset of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the author reevaluates Ignat Abdziralovich’s early twentieth century theory of “in-betweenness”…