Central Europe between the colonial and postcolonial in the twentieth century / Siegfried Huigen, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, editors.

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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Other Authors: Huigen, Siegfried (Editor), Kołodziejczyk, Dorota (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial. A Critical Introduction(Dorota Koodziejczyk, 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(Risn Healy)
  • 5 The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliades Conceptualization of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romanias Interwar Fascist Movement(Raul Crstocea)
  • 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).