Postsocialist Landscapes - Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the »second world« today.

About the author

Schamma Schahadat (Prof. Dr.), geb. 1961, lehrt slavische Literaturwissenschaft am Slavischen Seminar der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen und leitet das EU-Projekt »TransStar Europa«.

Summary

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the »second world« today.

Additional text

»It makes for intriguing and insightful reading.«

Report

»It makes for intriguing and insightful reading.«

Stefan Berger, Moving the Social, 65 (2021) 20220829

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Lahusen
• Assisted by: Thoma Lahusen (Editor), Thomas Lahusen (Editor), Schahadat (Editor), Schahadat (Editor), Schamma Schahadat (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2020
• EAN: 9783837651249
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5124-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 468 g
• Illustrations: 37 SW-Abb., 8 Farbabb.
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft; Culture & Theory; Culture & Theory (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Geschichte, Architektur, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Literature, Space, Media Studies, Memory Culture, Sociology, Globalization, Society, Cultural Studies, European History, Urban Studies, Political Ideologies, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Social interaction, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Political activism, Communities, General & world history, Politics & government, Political structure & processes, auseinandersetzen, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Urban communities, Sociology and anthropology, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Politischer Aktivismus / Politisches Engagement, Philosophy and theory, Culture and institutions, The political process, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, Systems of governments and states, International migration and colonization, Political science (Politics and government), History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, East Indo-European and Celtic literatures, Philosophy and theory of history, Russia and neighboring east European countries, (Post-)Socialism, Hybrid Spatialities, East European Studies