Natasa Kovacevic

Narrating Post/Communism

Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist" - in contrast to the civilized "West" - disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415461115
• ISBN-10: 0415461111
• Artikelnr.: 25007105

Autorenporträt

Nataa Kovacevic is assistant professor in Global Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Eastern Michigan University. She has published research on linguistic imperialism, Eastern European dissident authors, colonial discourses on the Balkans, and English modernism. Her work engages with transforming postcolonial studies in the postcommunist era.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. 'Doubly Obscure' Dissident Narrative: Vladimir Nabokov's
Pale Fire 3. Shifting Topographies of Eastern/Central/Europe in Joseph
Brodsky's and Czeslaw Milosz's Prose Writing 4. Deviant Stepchild of
European History: Communist Eastern Europe in Milan Kundera and Günter
Grass 5. Primitive Accumulation and Neanderthal Liberalism: Victor Pelevin,
Gary Shteyngart and Criminal Eastern Europe 6. Ethnicizing Guilt:
Humanitarian Imperialism and the Case of (for) Yugoslavia 7. Conclusion 8.
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