Epp Annus

Soviet Postcolonial Studies

A View from the Western Borderlands

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. It explores topics like Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, and how cultural imaginaries were formative of Soviet everyday experience.

Produktdetails

• BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780415786928
• ISBN-10: 0415786924
• Artikelnr.: 49084202

Autorenporträt

Epp Annus is a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She also lectures at Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Colonialism in camouflage 1. Methodological theses about the
Soviet empire 2. The location of knowledge: Soviet area studies facing the
postcolonial question 3. Can a modern nation-state be colonized?
Reformulating the framework of postcolonial studies 4. Modernity with a
smiley face: Soviet modernity, Soviet coloniality 5. Colonial layers and
hybridization of the past: layers of national modernity in the Baltics
6. From colonial fear to decolonizing laughter: deconstructing the colonial
binarisms of 'us' and 'them', 'the colonizer' and 'the colonized' 7.
Cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities: living in a Soviet home
Conclusion: Everyday dissensus and the end of empire