Postcolonial Europe? Essays on Post-Communist Literatures and Cultures

Dobrota Pucherová is a researcher at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and a lecturer at University of Vienna.Róbert Gáfrik is a researcher at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, and an associate professor at Trnava University.

• Acknowledgments Dobrota Pucherová and Róbert GáfrikIntroduction: Which Postcolonial Europe? Part I: Post-Communist, Post-Socialist, Post-Soviet, Post-Dependence: Preliminary Considerations on East-Central European Un-HomingMadina TlostanovaPostcolonial Theory, the Decolonial Option and Postsocialist Writing Benedikts KalnačsPostcolonial Narratives, Decolonial Options: The Baltic Experience Cristina SandruJoined at the Hip? About Post-Communism in a (Revised) Postcolonial Mode Emilia KledzikInventing Postcolonial Poland: Strategies of Domestication Part II: The Ghosts of the Past: Post-Communist Rewriting of National HistoriesBogdan ŞtefănescuFilling in the Historical Blanks: A Tropology of the Void in Postcommunist and Postcolonial Reconstructions of Identity Adriana RaducanuConfessions from the Dead: Reading Ismail Kadare’s Spiritus as a ‘Post-Communist Gothic’ Novel Dobrota PucherováTrauma and Memory of Soviet Occupation in Slovak (Post-)Communist Literature Natalie Paoli‘Let My People Go’: Postcolonial Trauma in Oksana Zabuzhko’s The Museum of Abandoned Secrets Edit ZsadányiVoicing the Subaltern by Narrating the Communist Past through the Focalization of a Child in Gábor Németh’s ‘Are You a Jew?’ and Endre Kukorelly’s ‘The Fairy Valley’ Part III: Place and Displacement in (Post-)Communist Narratives and CityscapesIrene SywenkyGeopoetics of the Female Body in Postcolonial Ukrainian and Polish Fiction Tamás ScheibnerBuilding Empire through Self-Colonization: Literary Canons and Budapest as Sovietized Metropolis Xénia GaálThe City of K. (Königsberg/Kaliningrad) as a Cultural Phenomenon: Cultural Memory, the Myth and Identity of the City Dorota KołodziejczykThe Organic (Re)Turn ― Ecology of Place in Postcolonial and Central/Eastern European Novel of Post-Displacement Part IV: Imagining the Orient in Central European Communist Travel WritingRóbert GáfrikRepresentations of India in Slovak Travel Writing during the Communist Regime (1948–1989) Martin SlobodníkSocialist Anti-Orientalism: Perceptions of China in Czechoslovak Travelogues from the 1950s Agnieszka SadeckaA Socialist Orientalism? Polish Travel Writing on India in the 1960sPart V: Between the East and the West: The Colonial PresentMykola RiabchukUkrainian Culture after Communism: Between Post-Colonial Liberation and Neo-Colonial Subjugation Dariusz SkórczewskiTrapped by the Western Gaze: Contemporary European Imagology and Its Implications for East and South-East European Agency ― a Case Study Jagoda WierzejskaCentral European Palimpsests: Postcolonial Discourse in Works by Andrzej Stasiuk and Yurii Andrukhovych Contributors

“An important and timely volume on post-communist cultures that seeks to offer an insightful contribution to the field of postcolonial studies [...] The diverse disciplinary background of the authors ensures that this very rich cultural material is explored from different angles [...]" - Ágnes Györke, University of Debrecen, Hungary in Recherche Littéraire/Literary Research , Vol. 33 2017 pp.110-114