Postcolonial Europe? : essays on post-communist literatures and cultures / edited by Dobrota Pucherová; Robert Gáfrik
- Published:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2015
- Physical Description:
- 405 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta, 1977- and Gáfrik, Róbert
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? / Robert Gafrik -- pt. I Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-Horning -- Postcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing / Madina Tlostanova -- Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience / Benedikts Kalnacs -- Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode / Cristina Sandru -- Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication / Emilia Kledzik -- pt. II The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National Histories -- Filling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity / Bogdan Stefanescu -- Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare's Spiritus as a `Post-Communist Gothic' Novel / Adriana Raducanu -- Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature / Dobrota Pucherova -- `Let My People Go': Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets / Natalie Paoli -- Voicing the Subaltern by Narrating the Communist Past through the Focalization of a Child in Gabor Nemeth's `Are You a Jew?' and Endre Kukorelly's `The Fairy Valley' / Edit Zsadanyi -- pt. III Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and Cityscapes -- Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction / Irene Sywenky -- Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis / Tamas Scheibner -- The City of K. (Konigsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City / Xenia Gaal -- The Organic (Re)Turn --- Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement / Dorota Kolodziejczyk -- pt. IV Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel Writing -- Representations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948--1989) / Robert Gafrik -- Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s / Martin Slobodnik -- A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s / Agnieszka Sadecka -- pt. V Between the East and the West: The Colonial Present -- Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation / Mykola Riabchuk -- Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency --- a Case Study / Dariusz Skorczewski -- Central European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych / Jagoda Wierzejska.
- Summary:
- This collective monograph analyzes post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe through the paradigm of postcoloniality. Based on the assumption that both Western and Soviet imperialism emerged from European modernity, the book is a contribution to the development of a global postcolonial discourse based on a more extensive and nuanced geohistorical comparativism. It suggests that the inclusion of East-Central Europe in European identity might help resolve postcolonialism's difficulties in coming to terms with both postcolonial and neo-colonial dimensions of contemporary Europe. Analyzing post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of transformative political, economic and cultural experiences such as changes in perception of time and space (landscapes, cityscapes), migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, objectifying gaze, cultural self-colonization, and language as a form of power, the book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism. Together the studies map the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art, the latter highlighted through accompanying illustrations.
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- ISBN:
- 9789004303843
9004303847
9789004303850 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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