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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 o...

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Έκδοση: Springer Nature 2023
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-623752024-03-28T08:18:15Z East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century Huigen, Siegfried Kołodziejczyk, Dorota Central Europe European modernity Post-dependence European Empire Europeanness Post-colonialism European society Orientalisation Cultural imaginaries Periphery Political history EU Post-socialism Post-Communism Nationalism Identity Literary studies Anti-colonialism Migration thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history 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. 2023-04-13T14:03:08Z 2023-04-13T14:03:08Z 2023 book ONIX_20230413_9783031174872_10 9783031174872 9783031174865 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62375 eng Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-17487-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-17487-2 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2 10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e8f0c0d0-91e0-44df-b9f0-f9191ff59371 9783031174872 9783031174865 Palgrave Macmillan 265 Cham [...] open access
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