East Central Europe Between The Colonial And The Postcolonial In The Twentieth Century

Author : Siegfried Huigen,Dorota Kołodziejczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031174872

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East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century by Siegfried Huigen,Dorota Kołodziejczyk Pdf

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.

Author : Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Cristina Şandru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317286004

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Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe by Dorota Kołodziejczyk,Cristina Şandru Pdf

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.

Author : Agata Anna Lisiak
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557535733

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Urban Cultures in (post)colonial Central Europe by Agata Anna Lisiak Pdf

"Agata Anna Lisiak shows in her book Urban Cultures in (Post)colonial Central Europe how the postcolonial idea, developed recently to study Central and East European culture, can help us see the transformations of cities in the region. Lisiak argues that Berlin, Budapest Warsaw, and Prague are incubated cultures whose deepest forces were shadowy and ironic."-Marshall Berman, City University of New York.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004303850

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Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures by Anonim Pdf

An 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.

Author : Tibor Iván Berend,György Ránki,Éva Pálmai
Publisher : Budapest : Akademiai Kiado
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015031602983

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East Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Tibor Iván Berend,György Ránki,Éva Pálmai Pdf

Author : Monika Albrecht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000007824

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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined by Monika Albrecht Pdf

Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.

Author : Cristina Sandru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443845908

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Worlds Apart? A Postcolonial Reading of post-1945 East-Central European Culture by Cristina Sandru Pdf

This study explores the relation of the Eastern European problematic to postcolonial critical practice, interrogating the extent to which postcolonialism can help illuminate instances of imperial domination in non-Third World contexts. It argues that colonisation is to be understood principally as a condition of ideological domination that has engendered similar forms of literary and cultural resistance; consequently, it offers a comparative framework which enables a reading in differential contexts of texts that ostensibly have little in common, but which, on close examination, reveal a shared imaginative space, rhetoric and narrative agency. The book consists of two interrelated parts. Part one is a critical discussion of the ideologies, cultural imaginaries and representational practices articulated in a diverse range of representative postcolonial and post-1945 East-Central European texts; these are shown to share, despite dissimilar conditions of production, uncannily related narrative modes and thematic emphases. Part two is a comparative literature case-study which discusses two authors whose work is both highly representative of the cultural formations discussed in the first part (Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie) and, at the same time, highly controversial. The chapters dedicated to Kundera’s and Rushdie’s work examine the cultural geography of their novels, particularly in the writers’ use of memory and story-telling to reconfigure history and personal identity in conditions of literal and metaphorical displacement. While their novels thrive on ironic subversion and ambiguity, they simultaneously gesture towards a redemptive space of the imagination, transcending the constraints of both locality and history.

Author : Katja Castryck-Naumann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110680560

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Transregional Connections in the History of East-Central Europe by Katja Castryck-Naumann Pdf

Transregional connections play a fundamental role in the history of East-Central Europe. This volume explores this connectivity by showing how people from eastern and central parts of Europe have positioned themselves within global processes while, in turn, also shaping them. The contributions examine different fields of action such as economy, arts, international regulations and law, development aid, and migration, focusing on the period between the middle of the nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War. The authors uncover spaces of interaction and emphasize that internal and external entanglements have established East-Central Europe as a distinct region. Understanding the connectedness of this subregion is stimulating for the historiography of East-Central Europe as it is for the field of global history.

Author : Siegfried Huigen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004545816

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Shaping a Dutch East Indies by Siegfried Huigen Pdf

In 1724-1726, the Dutch clergyman François Valentyn published a 5,000-page account of the Dutch East India Company’s empire. It was the first and, for a long time, the only survey of the Dutch establishments in Asia and South Africa. Shaping a Dutch East Indies analyses how Valentyn composed this work and how it largely determined the Dutch perspective on the colonies in Asia until the 1850s. It seeks to highlight both the great diversity of knowledge gathered in Valentyn’s book and its geographical spread, from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, with a focus on the Indonesian archipelago. Huigen’s book is the first in-depth study of Valentyn’s work, which is a foundational text in the history of Dutch colonialism.

Author : Lorely French,Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf
Publisher : Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783954771578

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Approaches to a “new" World Literature by Lorely French,Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf Pdf

The history of written Romani literature is only about 100 years old, and thus Romani literatures are still being defined and consolidated. At least two special features characterize this young literature: on the one hand, it is a multilingual diasporic world literature that often can be characterized as engaged literature and tries to deconstruct various age-old stereotypes of the minority. On the other hand, female authors play a strikingly prominent role. Female authors frequently achieve visibility with their texts on the national book markets. Some authors appear in their own texts as committed feminists and/or human rights activists. For other authors, sexuality and gender play a less prominent role in their works. Additionally, women often also play very central roles in texts by male authors. Therefore, this volume aims to explore the different facets of Romani literatures on two interrelated axes. First, the essays explore the status of several diverse works as transnational world literature. Second, the contributions examine the significance of writing as a form of social engagement and self-empowerment. What emerges is the observation that mainly women authors have been speaking out and standing up for their rights as women and Romnya. With contributions from: Oksana Marafioti, Ana Belén Martín Sevillano, Martin Shaw, Kirsten von Hagen, Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf, Emilia Kledzik, Florian Homann, Paola Toninato, Sidonia Bauer, Lorely French, Viola Parente-Capková

Author : Barbora Buzássyová
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040034583

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The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa by Barbora Buzássyová Pdf

This book analyses the shifting patterns of Czechoslovak educational aid programmes for sub-Saharan African countries within the broader framework of the global debates on the nature of development aid in education discussed on the UNESCO grounds during the three “development decades.” Starting in the early 1960s, Czechoslovakia sent abroad hundreds of experts hoping to stimulate the development of local educational and scientific institutions. However, over the years, the development aid to African countries transformed into a special form of foreign trade, and distribution of experts turned into a profitable business. Yet, the tendencies towards “sustainability” and “higher return on investment” in the field of development aid were not limited just to the socialist bloc but emerged globally. This book, therefore, not only revisits the roles of Czechoslovakia and Africa in the Cold War history but also reflects on the function of aid in international politics. The Eastern Bloc and Sub-Saharan Africa will appeal to students and historians specializing in the global Cold War, and particularly those curious about development, international organizations, economic history and transfers of knowledge in transnational networks.

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027293404

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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe by Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer Pdf

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites—multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions—that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, however inadvertently, the very national borders they play down. This volume inverts the expansive momentum of comparative studies towards ever-broader regional, European, and world literary histories. While the theater of this volume is still the literary culture of East-Central Europe, the contributors focus on pinpointed local traditions and geographic nodal points. Their histories of Riga, Plovdiv, Timişoara or Budapest, of Transylvania or the Danube corridor – to take a few examples – reveal how each of these sites was during the last two-hundred years a home for a variety of foreign or ethnic literary traditions next to the one now dominant within the national borders. By foregrounding such non-national or hybrid traditions, this volume pleads for a diversification and pluralization of local and national histories. A genuine comparatist revival of literary history should involve the recognition that “treading on native grounds” means actually treading on grounds cultivated by diverse people.

Author : Monika Baár
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199581184

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Historians and Nationalism by Monika Baár Pdf

Monika Baár examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the 19th century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.

Author : Jenny Watson,Michel Mallet,Hanna Schumacher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640141193

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Edinburgh German Yearbook 15 by Jenny Watson,Michel Mallet,Hanna Schumacher Pdf

Reconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern Other in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East.

Author : Robert J. C. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118896150

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Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J. C. Young Pdf

Empire, Colony, Postcolony provides a clear exposition of the historical, political and ideological dimensions of colonialism, imperialism, and postcolonialism, with clear explanations of these categories, which relate their histories to contemporary political issues. The book analyzes major concepts and explains the meaning of key terms. The first book to introduce the main historical and cultural parameters of the different categories of empire, colony, postcolony, nation, and globalization and the ways in which they are analyzed today Explains in clear and accessible language the historical and theoretical origins of postcolonial theory as well as providing a postcolonial perspective on the formations of the contemporary world Written by an acknowledged expert on postcolonialism