Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-30384-3
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Brill

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pucherova, Dobrota

Gafrik, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Dobrota Pucherová is a researcher at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and a lecturer at University of Vienna.

Róbert Gáfrik is a researcher at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and an associate professor at Trnava University.