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Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence
Madina Tlostanova
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Description for Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 437.
This book tackles the intersections of postcolonial and postsocialist imaginaries and sensibilities focusing on the ways they are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and cinema. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the postcolonial situations, including subalternization, epistemic racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and life-asserting modes of re-existence. Yet there are also untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the postsocialist human ... Read more
This book tackles the intersections of postcolonial and postsocialist imaginaries and sensibilities focusing on the ways they are reflected in contemporary art, fiction, theater and cinema. After the defeat of the Socialist modernity the postsocialist space and its people have found themselves in the void. Many elements of the former Second world experience, echo the postcolonial situations, including subalternization, epistemic racism, mimicry, unhomedness and transit, the revival of ethnic nationalisms and neo-imperial narratives, neo-Orientalist and mutant Eurocentric tendencies, indirect forms of resistance and life-asserting modes of re-existence. Yet there are also untranslatable differences between the postcolonial and the postsocialist human ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319484440
SKU
V9783319484440
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About Madina Tlostanova
Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Postcolonial Feminism at Linkoping University, Sweden. The author of Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands (2010) and Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflection from Eurasia and the Americas (co-authored with Walter Mignolo, 2012), Tlostanova focuses on non-Western feminism, postcolonial and decolonial thought, and postsocialist studies.
Reviews for Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence
“Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art is a balanced repertory of possible adaptations and deconstructions of postcolonial and postsocialist theories, practical examples of decolonial thinking, impressive reviews and close-readings of artworks, it is a useful and enjoyable text for researchers and students of postcolonial and postsocialist studies and also for art enthusiasts who take interest in the Eurasian borderlands.” ... Read more