Overview
- Examines cultural and literary narratives from 20th century Central Europe
- Explores the ambiguity of a region which has been defined by its dependence on European colonialism
- Provides an analysis of Central Europe’s overlapping posts
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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This open access book explores the ambiguity of East Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining local contexts through a comparative and transnational reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies. Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the same time East Central European states have been seen to be colonial actors, with individuals from the region often associating themselves with colonial discourses in extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until after the Second World War and covering the governance of Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural and literary narratives from East Central Europe have created and revised historical knowledge, making use of collective memory to feed into identity models.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Locating East Central Europe Through Comparative Methodologies
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Appraising the Empire from European Peripheries
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Emigres, Exiles, Settlers—Framing Displaced Identities
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Reviews
“Kołodziejczyk and Huigen’s book is a collection of sound chapters that reiterate and reinforce the dominant idea about the ‘in-betweenness’ of East Central Europe, which, the argument continues, renders it only slightly different from Western Europe in its relations with the Global South but produces regional colonial dynamics. … this is a required reading for all interested in postcolonial studies and the past and present of the region.” (Piotr Puchalski, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, June 11, 2024)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Siegfried Huigen is Professor of Dutch and South African Literature at the University of Wrocław in Poland and Visiting Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He has written and co-edited a number of books and journal articles on colonialism in South Africa, Indonesia and East Central Europe. His most recent book, Shaping a Dutch East Indies (2023), explores the construction of an authoritative representation of the Dutch colonial empire at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Dorota Kołodziejczyk is Associate Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland. She is Chair of Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. Academic Research Centre, Director of the Postcolonial Studies Centre and board member of the Postdependence Studies Centre. Her publications include Postcolonial Perspectives on Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe (2016, 2018), co-edited with Cristina Sandru, three issues of the European Review co-edited with Siegfried Huigen, and studies in comparative literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century
Editors: Siegfried Huigen, Dorota Kołodziejczyk
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17486-5Published: 17 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-17489-6Published: 17 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-17487-2Published: 16 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, History of Germany and Central Europe, Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History