Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures.
Intro -- Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? -- Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central Europea...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Leiden Boston : Brill,
2015
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
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| Schlagworte: | Literature ; History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature Postcolonialism Electronic books Osteuropa Postkommunismus Postkoloniale Literatur |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (405 pages) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Postcolonial Europe? Essays onPost-Communist Literatures andCultures; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe?; Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-Homing; Postcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing; Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience; Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode; Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication
- Part II: The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National HistoriesFilling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity; Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare's Spiritus as a 'Post-Communist Gothic' Novel; Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature; 'Let My People Go': Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko's The Museum of Abandoned Secrets
- Voicing the Subaltern by Narrating the Communist Past through the Focalization of a Child in Gábor Németh's 'Are You a Jew?' and Endre Kukorelly's 'The Fairy Valley'Part III: Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and Cityscapes; Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction; Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis; The City of K. (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City
- The Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-DisplacementPart IV: Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel Writing; Representations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948-1989); Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s; A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s; Part V: Between the East and the West: The Colonial Present; Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation
- Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case StudyCentral European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych; Contributors