«Sceptics and partisans alike should look into this intellectually adventurous book.»<br />
(Susan Layton, The Russian Review Vol.77 No. 2 2018)

How postcolonial are the literatures of postcommunist countries such as Poland, Russia, and Ukraine? Are they postcolonial on the level of sociopolitical conditions, postcolonial modes of representation, or of a (post-)colonial mind? The contributors consider and respond to the heuristic questions and to the claim for accuracy which purports that Slavic literatures after communism are indeed postcolonial – in a no more metaphorical way than the «classic» cases of postcolonial literatures, whose postcoloniality can be traced to the colonialism of overseas empires. The contributions to this volume deal with the exploration of literary representation and hence of postcolonial textuality.
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The present volume focuses on the postcoloniality of the Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Czech literatures from post-communist times and that of the translingual diaspora. The contributions deal with the exploration of literary representation and hence of postcolonial textuality – of poetics, textual structures, rhetoric, and tropes.
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Postcolonial literatures after communism – Postcoloniality in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland after 1990 – Russian language poetry of Ukraine – Multinational Soviet literature – Siberian and Caucasian ethnic literature – Self-Orientalization – Self-colonization – Postcolonial journeys – Translingual (migration) literature
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9783631668566
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Peter Lang AG
Vekt
730 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
504

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Om bidragsyterne

Klavdia Smola is Visiting Professor in the Department of Slavic Studies at the University of Greifswald. Her scholarly interests include Eastern-European-Jewish culture, Russian and Polish literatures of the 19th-21st centuries, postcolonial literatures in Eastern Europe, and late-Soviet underground culture.

Dirk Uffelmann is Professor of Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Passau. His research interests are Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Central-Asian literatures, philosophy, religion, migration, masculinity, and Internet studies.