East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 269
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction
East Central Europe: The Allure of In-Betweenness
Debating a Postcolonial Perspective on East Central Europe
Postcolonialism’s Désintéressment—A Left-Wing Commitment or Metropolitan Ignorance?
Towards a Comparative System—Postcolonizing the Postcommunist Europe
Conclusion: Postcolonial Sensibility as Critical Thought
About the Book
References
Locating East Central Europe Through Comparative Methodologies
East Central Europe as a Historical and Conceptual Space: On the Production of Knowledge from an (Historical) Area Studies Perspective
What’s New About Area Studies in the Twenty-First Century?
A Genealogy of Area Studies in Two Postwar Periods
“1989” and the “Spatial Turn”
Eastern Europe in a Globalised Science
Eastern/East Central Europe and the “Hyperreal Europe”
The Twenty-First Century or Why We Still Need Relational History in a Postcolonial Vein
References
Polish Stereotypes of the East: Old and New Mechanisms of Orientalisation in the Regional and Transnational Dimensions
Introduction
Orientalism and the Dimensions of Dependency in the Eastern Peripheries of Europe
Postcolonial Approaches to Polish Discourses of the East and Borderlands Ideologies
Polish Discourses of the East and the Belarussian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian Identity Disputes
New Identities in Eastern Poland and Orientalism
The Cities of Białystok and Lublin and Their “Eastern” Identity
Identity Dilemmas of the Eastern Borderlands
References
Appraising the Empire from European Peripheries
Colonial Ambivalence and Its Aftermath: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Independent Poland and Ireland
Ireland and Poland as Objects of Colonialism
Ireland and Poland as Agents of Colonialism
Ireland and Poland as Critics of Global Colonialism
Conclusion
References
The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualisation of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement
Introduction
Cultural Debates and Intergenerational Politics in Interwar Romania
Experiencing India
The Return from India—Scholarly Work and Political Commitment
Eliade’s Reflections on Colonialism and Romania’s Peripheral Position
Conclusion
References
Reportage from the (Post-)Contact Zone: Polish Travellers to Decolonised India (1950–1980)
A Postcolonial Contact Zone
A Socialist Critique of Colonialism
Traces of Colonialism in Indian Cities
Capitalism and Colonialism Intertwined
The Ambiguous Position of a Polish Reporter in India
Conclusion
References
An East Central European “Sahib” in a Former Colony: Andrzej Bobkowski in Guatemala (1948–1961)
The Decision of Life and Death
To Be a Quetzal
Among Caballeros
A View from the Top Drawer
Conclusions
References
Emigres, Exiles, Settlers—Framing Displaced Identities
Regained Landscapes: The Transfer of Power and Tradition in Polish Discourse of the Regained Territories
Post-Yalta Cartographic Shifts: The Discourse of the Regained Territories and (Post)Colonialism
Regained Landscapes
Terra Nullius
“Fatherland-Ness”
Nativeness in Motion
Transitive Landscape
Conclusion
References
Between Pedagogy and Self-Articulation: Roma Necessary Fictions in East Central Europe
For the Right to Free Mobility
They Lived in the Dark Until the People’s Authority Thought About Them!
References
Soviet Colonialism Reloaded: Encounters Between Russians and East Central Europeans in Contemporary Literature
Introduction
City of Exiles: Representations of Berlin in World Literature
A Russian City: Russians in Berlin and Their Invisible Others
City of Russians? Images of Russians in Berlin by East Central Europeans Writers
The Chronotope of Staged Encounters: Kaminer, Šteger, and Be’er
Conclusion
References
Index

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