(Post-)bordering Galicia in Ukrainian and Polish post-colonial discourse: The cases of Yurii Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-189
Author(s):  
Jagoda Wierzejska
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Peripheral Regions

This article is devoted to the analysis of literary representations of Galicia in two discourses of the region: Ukrainian and Polish. They are discussed on the basis of essays by Yurii Andrukhovych and Andrzej Stasiuk. For both writers, the narrative of Galicia, understood concurrently as a bordering and post-bordering space, is the starting point for reflection on the epistemology and ontology of Polish–Ukrainian borderlands and Central Europe. A disparity emerges from the perspectives of the two writers which can be described by way of the opposition city/province. Andrukhovych explores the palimpsestic and heterotopic character of the Galician urban sphere, while Stasiuk focuses on the most peripheral regions. The meaning generated by that difference evokes disparate ideological concepts regarding both former Galicia and Central Europe.

scholarly journals Post-imperialism, postcolonialism and beyond: Towards a periodization of cultural discourse about colonial legacies

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Göttsche
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Political Understanding

Taking German history and culture as a starting point, this essay suggests a historical approach to reconceptualizing different forms of literary engagement with colonial discourse, colonial legacies and (post)colonial memory in the context of Comparative Postcolonial Studies. The deliberate blending of a historical, a conceptual and a political understanding of the ‘postcolonial’ in postcolonial scholarship raises problems of periodization and historical terminology when, for example, anti-colonial discourse from the colonial period or colonialist discourse in Weimar Germany are labelled ‘postcolonial’. The colonial revisionism of Germany’s interwar period is more usefully classed as post-imperial, as are particular strands of retrospective engagement with colonial history and legacy in British, French and other European literatures and cultures after 1945. At the same time, some recent developments in Francophone, Anglophone and German literature, e.g. Afropolitan writing, move beyond defining features of postcolonial discourse and raise the question of the post-postcolonial.

scholarly journals Epp Annus, Soviet Postcolonial Studies: A View from the Western Borderlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-136
Author(s):  
Silviu-Marian Miloiu
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Reference Area ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Baltic

The core approach of the work deals with postcolonial studies and the geographical reference area of “Western Borderlands”, which largely consists of Eastern and East Central Europe. However, the Baltic states stand at the focus of the analysis and as such they are devoted the largest share of the eight chapters of the book. Colonialism, coloniality, and post-colonial are insightfully analyzed in the monograph and the author blends them to concepts such as colonial subject positions and colonial ideology. How to behave properly, what one could speak or do in public and what one instantly felt was forbidden, what could be published and what was rather to be shelved established certain boundaries between the conceivable and the inconceivable. Everything was driven by the colonial ideology which Annus defines as “a system of beliefs and corresponding statements that motivate and guide colonial discourse”. Spotlighting both colonial subject positions and colonial ideology and further encompassing the notion of colonization in the meaning of “territorial acquisition” and “system of domination”, the book is clearly operating in an innovative conceptual framework which turns it into a vital contribution in colonial/postcolonial studies.

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
David Chioni Moore ◽  
Patrick Williams ◽  
Laura Chrisman ◽  
Bill Ashcroft ◽  
Gareth Griffiths ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory

The Developmental State

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-100
Author(s):  
Luis Eslava
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Institutional Formation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

The battle for international law during the era of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century was to a large extent a battle fought over the nature, function and objectives of the state—above all, over their relationship to the idea of ‘development’. A particular normative and institutional formation resulted from this battle: the ‘developmental state’, the impact of which on (in)dependence in the South was and continues to be profound. However, the ‘developmental state’ did not spring ready-made out of nowhere. On the contrary, using Latin America’s much earlier experience of colonialism, decolonization and independent statehood as a starting-point, this chapter draws attention to the long and complex process through which the developmental state’s most important elements emerged, defining what was thinkable and doable there and elsewhere in the post-colonial world.

Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1224-1225
Author(s):  
Nora Radó
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Post Colonial
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