East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Huigen, Siegfried. editor (editor), Kołodziejczyk, Dorota. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Colección:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial. A Critical Introduction(Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Siegfried Huigen)
  • 2 East Central Europe as a Historical and Conceptual Space. On the Production of Knowledge from an (Historical) Area Studies Perspective(Claudia Kraft)
  • 3 Polish Stereotypes of the East. Old and New Mechanisms of Orientalisation in the Regional and Transnational Dimensions(Tomasz Zarycki)
  • 4 Colonial Ambivalence and its Aftermath: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Independent Poland and Ireland(Róisín Healy)
  • 5 The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualization of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement(Raul Cârstocea)
  • 6 Reportage from the (Post-)Contact Zone: Polish Travellers to Decolonised India (1950-1980)(Agnieszka Sadecka)
  • 7 An East Central European “Sahib” in a Former Colony: Andrzej Bobkowski in Guatemala(Jagoda Wierzejska)
  • 8 Regained Landscapes. The Transfer of Power and Tradition in Polish Discourse of the Regained Territories(Kinga Siewior)
  • 9 Between Pedagogy and Self-Articulation: Roma Necessary Fictions in East Central Europe(Emilia Kledzik)
  • 10 Soviet Colonialism Reloaded. Encounters Between Russians and Central Europeans in Contemporary Literature(Miriam Finkelstein).