East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century /

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Huigen, Siegfried (Editor), Kołodziejczyk, Dorota (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Series:	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies,
Subjects:	Europe-History. Europe, Central-History. Imperialism. World history. Civilization-History. European History. History of Germany and Central Europe. Imperialism and Colonialism. World History, Global and Transnational History. Cultural History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1 East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial. A Critical Introduction(Dorota Kołodziejczyk, 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(Róisín Healy)
5 The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade's Conceptualization of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania's Interwar Fascist Movement(Raul Cârstocea)
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).