The Forager of Ustroń and the Threefold Expansion of the Archive >>If we understand the archive in abstract terms, as an apparatus that lays a framework for the production of knowledge and becomes an instrument of selection and control, then this forager of Ustroń rejects the archive’s mandate by complicating the discourse and carving out a space for Polish Evangelical Lutherans. Novelist Jerzy Pilch’s ironic take on the status of this religious identity indicates the gravity of Wantuła’s intervention: “Being Lutheran in Poland means something subtler than being Jewish in Poland. Jews once lived in Poland and do no longer. We Lutherans, on the other hand, once didn’t exist in Poland, and today, continue not to exist.” By problematizing the conflation of “the Pole” and “the Catholic” and verifying the canon of national history, Wantuła (author of Page from the History of the People of Cieszyn Silesia) broaches the borders of the Foucauldian archive. We could, of course, foll...