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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Other Authors: Huigen, Siegfried (Editor), Kołodziejczyk, Dorota (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (265 p.)
ISBN:978-3-031-17487-2
9783031174872
9783031174865
Access:Open Access