Postcolonial Europe

Central and Eastern Europe from a Postcolonial Perspective

Janusz Korek

The term "postcolonialism" is used today as a collective term for various kinds of theoretical approach that take a critical attitude towards the problems of knowledge, politics and cultural collision. Postcolonial studies, which have become popular as a consequence of literary research, are not confined today merely to literary studies.

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The poet Dmitry Prigov before and after the fall of the Soviet Union

Per-Arne Bodin

The Russian poet and artist Dmitrij Prigov (1940-2007) dedicated his whole life to undermining Soviet propaganda, Soviet ideology and Soviet language. He deconstructed Russian culture in general, including Pushkin and Dostoevsky as well as the Russian avant-garde, in a similar manner. With his death a moment of closure was reached for an entire era of Russian culture as primarily characterized by settlements with Socialist Realism, Soviet language and Soviet propaganda.

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In Search of Dracula or, Cultures in Dialogue

Lars Kleberg

In Dracula, Bram Stoker's famous Victorian horror novel, the young British lawyer Jonathan Harker sets out on a journey eastward. When the hero crosses the Danube andenters Transylvania in order to finalize a contract with a local count on the purchase of a piece of real estate in London, he notes a number of disquieting details.

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In Bed with an Elephant: Cultural Wars and Rival Identities in Contemporary Ukraine

Mykola Riabchuk

The metaphor used in the title of this paper was coined by the former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau who, in his 1969 speech at the Washington Press Club, said that sharing a land mass with a neighbor richer and more powerful than oneself was like sleeping with an elephant. "No matter how even-tempered and friendly the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt" [Kennedy 1996, viii].

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'Here Comes the Rest.' A Sociological Perspective on Postcolonial Rethinking of the 'Second World'

Magdalena Kania

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

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One Sixth of the World: Avant-garde Film, the Revolution of Vision, and the Colonization of the USSR Periphery during the 1920s (Towards a Postcolonial Deconstruction of the Soviet Hegemony)

Irina Sandomirskaja

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

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The End of an Empire: On Iurii Andrukhovych's Novel "Moskoviada"

Per-Arne Bodin

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 literature. He is a member of the famous Bu-Ba-Bu, a literary grouping which was formed in 1985. The three syllables signify Burlesk (burlesque), Balahan (farce) and Bufonada (buffoonery), and besides Andrukhovych the members of the group are Viktor Neborak and Oleksander Irvanets. According to one critic Bu-Ba-Bu is the only literary group or movement anywhere that acknowledges Mikhail Bakhtin's writings on the carnivalesque as a major source of inspiration in its artistic practice

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Postcolonial Europe

Central and Eastern Europe from a Postcolonial Perspective

The poet Dmitry Prigov before and after the fall of the Soviet Union

In Search of Dracula or, Cultures in Dialogue

In Bed with an Elephant: Cultural Wars and Rival Identities in Contemporary Ukraine

'Here Comes the Rest.' A Sociological Perspective on Postcolonial Rethinking of the 'Second World'

One Sixth of the World: Avant-garde Film, the Revolution of Vision, and the Colonization of the USSR Periphery during the 1920s (Towards a Postcolonial Deconstruction of the Soviet Hegemony)

The End of an Empire: On Iurii Andrukhovych's Novel "Moskoviada"

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