Title Narrating post/communism : colonial discourse and Europe's borderline civilization / Natasa Kovacevic

Published Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 221 pages) Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 47 BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; 47 Contents Doubly obscure, dissident narrative: Vladimir Nabokov's Pale fire -- Shifting topgraphies of Eastern/Central/Europe in Joseph Brodsky's and Czeslaw Milosz's prose writing -- Deviant stepchild of European history: communist Eastern Europe in Milan Kundera and Gunter Grass -- Primitive accumulation and neanderthal liberalism: Victor Pelevin, Gary Shteyngart and criminal Eastern Europe -- Ethnicizing guilt: humanitarian imperialism and the case of (for) Yugoslavia Summary This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist"€- in contrast to the civilized "West"€- disappointment in the changes brought on by post-communist transition, and nostalgia for communism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Slavic literature, Eastern -- 20th century -- History and criticism Postcolonialism in literature. Yugoslav literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Communism in literature. Postcolonialism -- Europe, Eastern Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Identity (Psychology) in literature. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. 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. Civilization Communism in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Postcolonialism Postcolonialism in literature Russian literature Slavic literature, Eastern Yugoslav literature Literatur Slawische Sprachen SUBJECT Slavic countries -- Civilization -- 20th century Europe, Eastern -- Civilization -- 20th century Subject Europe, Eastern -- Civilization -- 20th century. Eastern Europe Slavic countries Slawische Sprachen. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 0415461111 9780415461115 0203895258 9780203895252

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