Postcolonial Europe

Russian Projects of Europeanism and the Polish Factor (from the Middle Ages to the Age of Nationalisms)

Alexander V. Lipatov

The historical paths followed by Poles and Russians towards Europe-from a common geographical space (as it appeared in Antiquity) to a common civilizational space (which took shape as various ethnic groups adopted the universal values of Christianity) were distinctly different. And it was this that determined the particularity both of the way in which they expressed universal cultural values and the way in which they understood their own identity as offshoots of those values, thus influencing the notions they had of each other as neighbours.

Western ‘Eurasianism’ and the ‘New Eastern Europe’: Discourse of Exclusion*

Mykola Riabchuk

The term ‘Eurasia’ has many meanings but all of them can be subsumed under two main rubrics. The first is purely geographical, referring to a formidable landmass stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and considering Europe and Asia as a single continental entity, with a former as a peninsula of the latter. The second meaning is much more versatile but in all its multi-facet representations it refers typically to a Greater Russia, to some space dominated historically by the Russian Empire and its Soviet (and post-Soviet) reincarnation.

The poet Dmitry Prigov before and after the fall of the Soviet Union

Per-Arne Bodin

The Russian poet and artist Dmitrij Prigov (1940-2007) dedicated his whole life to undermining Soviet propaganda, Soviet ideology and Soviet language. He deconstructed Russian culture in general, including Pushkin and Dostoevsky as well as the Russian avant-garde, in a similar manner. With his death a moment of closure was reached for an entire era of Russian culture as primarily characterized by settlements with Socialist Realism, Soviet language and Soviet propaganda.

The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity

Hayden White

The current "discourse of Europe" features an effort to "identify" a Europe that is good and noble, capable of serving as a spiritual basis for a new and (let us not fear the term) post-modernist economic system based on consumerism, multinational capitalism, and commitment to what is euphemistically called "the free market". This quest for a Europe that is good and noble and therefore worthy to provide the ethos of a new kind of community (at once democratic and cultivated, both socialistic and capitalistic, Christian and humanistic, scientific and pious) is motivated in large part by the desire to redeem the Europe of the fathers from the onus of guilt born of an awareness that "Europe" had been responsible for the new forms of social violence spawned in the "rotten twentieth century" (Timothy Garton Ash’s term).

In Search of Dracula or, Cultures in Dialogue

Lars Kleberg

In Dracula, Bram Stoker's famous Victorian horror novel, the young British lawyer Jonathan Harker sets out on a journey eastward. When the hero crosses the Danube andenters Transylvania in order to finalize a contract with a local count on the purchase of a piece of real estate in London, he notes a number of disquieting details.

Central and Eastern Europe from a Postcolonial Perspective

Janusz Korek

The term "postcolonialism" is used today as a collective term for various kinds of theoretical approach that take a critical attitude towards the problems of knowledge, politics and cultural collision. Postcolonial studies, which have become popular as a consequence of literary research, are not confined today merely to literary studies.

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Postcolonial Europe

Russian Projects of Europeanism and the Polish Factor (from the Middle Ages to the Age of Nationalisms)

Western ‘Eurasianism’ and the ‘New Eastern Europe’: Discourse of Exclusion*

The poet Dmitry Prigov before and after the fall of the Soviet Union

The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity

In Search of Dracula or, Cultures in Dialogue

Central and Eastern Europe from a Postcolonial Perspective

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