East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century

Siegfried Huigen, Dorota Kołodziejczyk

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9783031174865
• eBook ISBN: 9783031174872
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction
• Part I. Locating East Central Europe Through Comparative Methodologies
• Part II. Appraising the Empire from European Peripheries
• Part III. Emigres, Exiles, Settlers—Framing Displaced Identities
• Back Matter