Narrating post/communism
Subtitle: colonial discourse and Europe's borderline civilization
By: Natasa Kovacevic.
Series: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies -- 47
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415461115; 9780203895252
Subjects: Slavic literature, Eastern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Yugoslav literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Communism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Postcolonialism -- Europe, Eastern; Europe, Eastern -- Civilization -- 20th century; Slavic countries -- Civilization -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Doubly obscure, dissident narrative: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale fire; title: Shifting topgraphies of Eastern/Central/Europe in Joseph Brodsky's and Czeslaw Milosz's prose writing; title: Deviant stepchild of European history: communist Eastern Europe in Milan Kundera and Gunter Grass; title: Primitive accumulation and neanderthal liberalism: Victor Pelevin, Gary Shteyngart and criminal Eastern Europe; title: Ethnicizing guilt: humanitarian imperialism and the case of (for) Yugoslavia.