A Prague text: Reconfiguring marginality in and of Europe
Journal: Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Year: 2023

While postcolonial scholarship has long sought to decentre Europe, the cumulative effects of such work have been to fetishize and homogenize a figure of Europe. Recent scholarship has recognized the value of reading postcolonial narratives alongside the ramifications of the Cold War for enriched understandings of each and both together. This article enters these conversations by developing a “migrational” reading of three texts about the city of Prague: Czech-born Libuše Moníková’s Prager Fenste