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Narrating Post/Communism
Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization
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ISBN-13:
9781134044139
Veröffentl:
2008
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Natasa Kovacevic
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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. Bibliography
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