Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands

ISBN-13: 9780367234546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 300 str.

Epp Annus

Opis

This book considers postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. It explores topics like Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, and how cultural imaginaries were formative of Soviet everyday experience.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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