Postcolonial Europe

In January 2008 the netmagazine Eurozine reprinted from the French Esprit an interview with Achille Mbembe entitled 'What is postcolonial thinking[1]?' A French historian and theorist, Mbembe suggests that postcolonial thought originates in multiple sources, such as the anti-imperialist tradition, subaltern and globalization

Although this article was originally presented at a conference on postcoloniality, I have to begin with a few reservations about the applicability of this term to the territories that were formerly owned or controlled by the USSR, and especially with regard to its Western frontier, i.e. the present-day Baltic States and the states of former Eastern Europe.[1] There are three objections against subsuming these

Iurii Andrukhovych's novel Moskoviada was published in 1992 in Ukrainian and was translated into Russian in 2001. This novel, in addition to three other novels and various collections of poetry and essays, have rendered Andrukhovych one of the most important authors in contemporary Ukraine. Andrukhovych, born in Ivano-Frankivsk and now in his forties, is already regarded as a classic of Ukrainian