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This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe
during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a
comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in
postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central
Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the
same time East Central European states have been seen to be
colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating
themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts.
Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and
covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book
examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central
Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of
collective memory to feed into identity models.
A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from
the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a
need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis
of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and
influence. This book proposes new critical perspectives on several
themes and concepts that have emerged within, or been propagated
by, postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of
exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism, structures of
othering, and representations of difference; forms and historical
realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the
experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia
and the re-writing of history); resistance as a complex of cultural
practices; and concepts such as alterity, ambivalence,
self-colonisation, dislocation, hegemonic discourse, minority, and
subaltern cultures. Taken together, this volume suggests that some
of the methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism can be
fruitfully applied to the study of postcommunist cultures and,
conversely, that the experience of the Soviet brand of imperialist
rule in the form of communism in East-Central Europe can function
as an ideological moderator in Third-World oriented,
Marxist-inspired, postcolonial discourses. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial
Writing.
A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from
the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a
need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis
of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and
influence. This book proposes new critical perspectives on several
themes and concepts that have emerged within, or been propagated
by, postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of
exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism, structures of
othering, and representations of difference; forms and historical
realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the
experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia
and the re-writing of history); resistance as a complex of cultural
practices; and concepts such as alterity, ambivalence,
self-colonisation, dislocation, hegemonic discourse, minority, and
subaltern cultures. Taken together, this volume suggests that some
of the methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism can be
fruitfully applied to the study of postcommunist cultures and,
conversely, that the experience of the Soviet brand of imperialist
rule in the form of communism in East-Central Europe can function
as an ideological moderator in Third-World oriented,
Marxist-inspired, postcolonial discourses. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial
Writing.
This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe
during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a
comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in
postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central
Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the
same time East Central European states have been seen to be
colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating
themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts.
Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and
covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book
examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central
Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of
collective memory to feed into identity models.
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