FOREIGN HISTORY IN SLAVONIC-BULGARIAN HISTORY

Abstract

The paper is focused on the way the text by Paisiy constructs other nations’ historical narratives. Generally, non-Bulgarian history narratives had no own ontology, and they were subordinated to Bulgarian one. They existed only due to their antagonistic potential: Bulgarian history narrative was meant to “defeat“ them and thus to acquire its own value. The analysis goes on with studying representations of Paisii’s text, took place later in post-National Revival epoch. Various attempts to re-arrange the images of the otherness were made, accenting on its ethnical content or class one (during the Marxist paradigm domination). Interpretation attempts were intended to deconstruct canonic and myth-stabilizing frames as well.