Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe

Name: Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern EuropeAuthor(s): Dorota Ko?odziejczyk, Cristina ?andru\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138309128, 978-1138309128\nSynopsis\nA quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and from the vantage point of a post-Cold War, globalised, world, there is a need to address the relative neglect of postcommunism in analysis of postcolonial and neo-colonial configurations of power and influence. \n\nThis book proposes new critical perspectives on several themes and concepts that have emerged within, or been propagated by, postcolonial studies. These themes include structures of exclusion/ inclusion; formations of nationalism, structures of othering, and representations of difference; forms and historical realisations of anti-colonial/anti-imperial struggle; the experience of trauma (involving issues of collective memory/amnesia and the re-writing o.