Narrating Post/Communism : Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

ISBN-13: 9780415461115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str.

Kovacevic Natas; Natasa Kovacevic

Opis

Examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. ‘Doubly Obscure’ Dissident Narrative: Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire  3. Shifting Topographies of Eastern/Central/Europe in Joseph Brodsky’s and Czeslaw Milosz’s Prose Writing  4. Deviant Stepchild of European History: Communist Eastern Europe in Milan Kundera and Günter Grass  5. Primitive Accumulation and Neanderthal Liberalism: Victor Pelevin, Gary Shteyngart and Criminal Eastern Europe  6. Ethnicizing Guilt: Humanitarian Imperialism and the Case of (for) Yugoslavia  7. Conclusion  8. Bibliography