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Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands book cover

1st Edition

Soviet Postcolonial Studies A View from the Western Borderlands

By Epp Annus Copyright 2018
316 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

298 Pages 50 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Postcolonial studies is a well-established academic field, rich in theory, but it is based mostly on postcolonial experiences in former West European colonial empires. This book takes a different approach, considering postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc. It both applies existing postcolonial theory to this different setting, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc... Read more

Introduction: Colonialism in camouflage

1. Methodological theses about the Soviet empire

2. The location of knowledge: Soviet area studies facing the postcolonial question

3. Can a modern nation-state be colonized? Reformulating the framework of postcolonial studies

4. Modernity with a smiley face: Soviet modernity, Soviet coloniality

5. Colonial layers and hybridization of the past: layers of national modernity in the Baltics

6. From colonial fear to decolonizing laughter: deconstructing the colonial binarisms of ‘us’ and ‘them’, ‘the colonizer’ and ‘the colonized’

7. Cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities: living in a Soviet home

Conclusion: Everyday dissensus and the end of empire

Biography

Epp Annus is a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She also lectures at Ohio State University. 

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