Soviet Postcolonial Studies - A View From the Western Borderlands

This book considers postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. It explores topics like Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, and how cultural imaginaries were formative of Soviet everyday experience.

List of contents

Introduction: Colonialism in camouflage 1. Methodological theses about the Soviet empire 2. The location of knowledge: Soviet area studies facing the postcolonial question 3. Can a modern nation-state be colonized? Reformulating the framework of postcolonial studies 4. Modernity with a smiley face: Soviet modernity, Soviet coloniality 5. Colonial layers and hybridization of the past: layers of national modernity in the Baltics 6. From colonial fear to decolonizing laughter: deconstructing the colonial binarisms of 'us' and 'them', 'the colonizer' and 'the colonized' 7. Cultural imaginaries and everyday materialities: living in a Soviet home Conclusion: Everyday dissensus and the end of empire

About the author

Epp Annus is a senior researcher with the Estonian Literature Museum. She also lectures at Ohio State University.

Summary

This book considers postcolonial theory in relation to the former Soviet bloc, and also uses the experiences of former Soviet bloc countries to refine and advance theory. It explores topics like Soviet colonality as co-constituted with Soviet modernity, and how cultural imaginaries were formative of Soviet everyday experience.

Product details

• Authors: Epp Annus, Annus Epp
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780415786928
• ISBN: 978-0-415-78692-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era