East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction
Journal: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Year: 2023

Abstract In this introductory chapter, we propose a comparative model for studying the in-between location of East Central Europe on the cultural, historical, and political map of Europe. To construct this model, we make a critical survey of theoretical frameworks that have been deployed so far and claim that postcolonialism can be used as a hermeneutical device for situating East Central Europe on the global map of (colonial) modernity. Analysing the approaches developed in studies on the regio