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Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series Editor Norbert Bachleitner (University of Vienna) Editorial Assistance Paul Ferstl Rudolf Pölzer Founded by Alberto Martino Editorial Board Francis Claudon (Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne University) Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London) Achim Hölter (University of Vienna) Klaus Ley ( Johannes Gutenburg University of Mainz) John A. McCarthy (Vanderbilt University) Alfred Noe (University of Vienna) Manfred Pfister (Free University of Berlin) Sven H. Rossel (University of Vienna) VOLUME 186 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/favl - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures Edited by Dobrota Pucherová Róbert Gáfrik LEIDEN | BOSTON - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library The publication of this book was co-financed by the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences and the International Visegrad Fund as part of the Small Grant Project no. 11340281, ‘Constructing National/Cultural Identities in Central Europe—Postmodern and Postcolonial Perspectives.’ Copyeditor: Melinda Reidinger. Cover illustration: Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Mutation. Lenin, Giacometti, Genghis Khan, Lumumba. 2009. Bronze. Three: 30 x 30 x 15 cm, one: 35 x 30 x 15 cm. © Yerbossyn Meldibekov. Permission to reproduce the image granted by the artist. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015944840 ISSN 0929-6999 ISBN 978-90-04-30384-3 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-30385-0 (e-book) Copyright 2015 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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This book is printed on acid-free paper. - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library Table of Contents Acknowledgments 9 Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert Gáfrik Introduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? 11 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 27 Benedikts Kalnačs Postcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience 47 Cristina Sandru Joined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode 65 Emilia Kledzik Inventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication 85 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 107 Adriana Raducanu Confessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare’s Spiritus as a ‘Post-Communist Gothic’ Novel 121 Dobrota Pucherová Trauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature 139 - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library 6 Natalie Paoli ‘Let My People Go’: Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets 161 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’ 175 Part III: Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and Cityscapes Irene Sywenky Geopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction 197 Tamás Scheibner Building Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis 215 Xénia Gaál The City of K. (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City 243 Dorota Kołodziejczyk The Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement 261 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) 283 Martin Slobodník Socialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s 299 - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library 7 Agnieszka Sadecka A Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960s 315 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 337 Dariusz Skórczewski Trapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case Study 357 Jagoda Wierzejska Central European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych 375 Contributors 399 - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library Acknowledgments This book is the result of collaboration among nineteen scholars from eleven different countries, all of whom have actively shaped the content, form, and look of this book through group discussions and individual effort, and we would like to thank all of them for their resilience and intellectual rigour as well as their commitment to the discipline. Special thanks go to the anonymous peer reviewers for their critical insight and useful suggestions, as well as to Melinda Reidinger of Anglo-American University, Prague, for her invaluable input and meticulous copyediting. We sincerely appreciate the financial and institutional support provided to us by the Institute of World Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and the International Visegrad Fund, without which this book could not have been published. We are also very grateful to the artists who provided images of their work free of charge, and especially Yerbossyn Meldibekov whose sculptures grace the cover of this book. Finally, we wish to thank Norbert Bachleitner for welcoming the book in the IFAVL series and Paul Ferstl for excellent communication and helpful assistance with pre- print preparation. - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library - 978-90-04-30385-0 Downloaded from Brill.com05/20/2021 05:55:39AM via National University of Singapore - YNC Library
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