{"product_id":"postcolonial-europe-essays-on-post-communist-literatures-and-cultures-9789004303843","title":"Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn analysis of post-communist identity reconstructions under the impact of experiences such as migration and displacement, collective memory and trauma, and cultural self-colonization. The book facilitates a mutually productive dialogue between postcolonialism and post-communism, mapping the rich terrain of contemporary East-Central European creative writing and visual art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important and timely volume on post-communist cultures that seeks to offer an insightful contribution to the field of postcolonial studies [...] The diverse disciplinary background of the authors ensures that this very rich cultural material is explored from different angles [...]\"  - Ágnes Györke, University of Debrecen, Hungary in  Recherche Littéraire\/Literary Research , Vol. 33 2017 pp.110-114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert Gáfrik Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe?   Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-Homing  Madina Tlostanova Postcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing   Benedikts Kalnačs Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience   Cristina Sandru Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode   Emilia Kledzik Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication   Part II: The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National Histories  Bogdan Ştefănescu Filling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity   Adriana Raducanu Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare’s Spiritus as a ‘Post-Communist Gothic’ Novel   Dobrota Pucherová Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature   Natalie Paoli ‘Let My People Go’: Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets   Edit Zsadányi 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  Irene Sywenky Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction   Tamás Scheibner Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis   Xénia Gaál The City of K. (Königsberg\/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City   Dorota Kołodziejczyk The Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central\/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement   Part IV: Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel Writing  Róbert Gáfrik Representations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948–1989)   Martin Slobodník Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s   Agnieszka Sadecka A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s  Part V: Between the East and the West: The Colonial Present  Mykola Riabchuk Ukrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation   Dariusz Skórczewski Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case Study   Jagoda Wierzejska Central European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych   Contributors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210675773783,"sku":"9789004303843","price":123.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postcolonial-europe-essays-on-post-communist-literatures-and-cultures-9789004303843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}