1st Edition
Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe
Introduction: On colonialism, communism and east-central Europe – some reflections Dorota Kołodziejczyk and Cristina Şandru
1. Spectres haunting: Postcommunism and postcolonialism Neil Lazarus
2. Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality Madina Tlostanova
3. Local and global frames in recent eastern European literatures: Postcommunism, postmodernism, and postcoloniality Marcel Cornis-Pope
4. Postcolonialism, postsocialism and the anthropology of east-central Europe Hana Cervinkova
5. Belated alliances? Tracing the intersections between postcolonialism and postcommunism Vedrana Velickovic
6. Lewis Nkosi in Warsaw: Translating eastern European experiences for an African audience Monica Popescu
7. Andrukhovych’s Secret: The return of colonial resignation Marko Pavlyshyn
8. Counter-discourse and the postcolonial perspective: The Polish Complex by Tadeusz Konwicki Hanna Gosk
9. Meat Inga Iwasiów
Biography
Dorota Kołodziejczyk is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, Wrocław University, Poland. She is the co-founder, and a board member, of two research networks: the Research Center for Postcolonial and Post-Totalitarian Studies, and The Postdependence Studies Center. She has authored publications in the fields of postcolonial and postdependence studies, comparative literature, and theory of translation, as well as translating both literature and postcolonial theory into Polish.
Cristina Şandru is an independent researcher who has published extensively in the field of postcolonial and postcommunist studies. She is co-editor of Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium (2009), and author of Worlds Apart? A Postcolonial Reading of post-1945 East-Central European Culture (2012).
