Postcolonial Europe? : essays on post-communist literatures and cultures /

Postcolonial Europe? : essays on post-communist literatures and cultures /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015] ©2015
Description:	405 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 186 Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 186.
Subject:	East European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Postcolonialism in literature. Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern. Postcolonialism -- Europe. Literature and society. East European literature. Literature and society. Post-communism. Postcolonialism. Postcolonialism in literature. Europe. Europe, Eastern. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424228

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Other authors / contributors:	Pucherová, Dobrota Alz̆beta, 1977- editor. Gáfrik, Róbert, editor.
ISBN:	9789004303843 9004303847 9789004303850
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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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