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NARCISSUS TAKING A SELFIE – POST-SOCIALIST LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF “WHITENESS” IN THE BALKANS

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Radin-Sabadoš M.

World Literature Studies

2019

vol. 11

issue 4

97 – 110

The novel Dangete, duša koja se smeje (Dangete, the smiling soul, 2011) by Tijana Ašić is partially an autobiographical story presented as an encounter with East-African cultural norm. On the other hand, the novel Ta i (Thai, 2013) by Goran Gocić was set in Thailand and presented as a story, or rather as a project, “of a self-aware man [...] who seeks to protect a woman”, but also “as a lesson given to a complacent Westerner, with the intention of curing his haughty ego by succumbing to the East”. Both novels correspond to the formal features of travel narratives, and their common point of reference is the paralyzing fixation on the images their protagonists are pressured to negotiate with – those of the South Eastern Europe caught between dichotomy of the Occident and the Orient.

COLONIAL EXCEPTIONALISM: POST-COLONIAL SCHOLARSHIP AND RACE IN CZECH AND SLOVAK HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Herza F.

Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)

2020

vol. 68

issue 2

175 – 187

In spite of recent calls for the decolonisation of Czech and Slovak academia, there is still relatively little reflection of post-colonial theory in either Czech or Slovak historiography or related disciplines, including ethnology and Slavic studies. In the following essay I summarise the local discussion of coloniality and colonialism that has been going on since at least the end of the 2000s, while pointing out its conceptual limits and blind spots; namely the persistence of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and the lack of understanding and use of race as an analytical tool. In dialogue with critical race theory as well as recent literature that deals with comparable ‘non-colonial’ or ‘marginal-colonial’ contexts such as South-Eastern Europe, Poland and the Nordic countries, I discuss how the local debates relating to colonial history as well as the post-colonial / post-socialist present of both countries would benefit from embracing the concept of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and from including concepts of race and ‘whiteness’ as important tools of a critical analysis.

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NARCISSUS TAKING A SELFIE – POST-SOCIALIST LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF “WHITENESS” IN THE BALKANS

COLONIAL EXCEPTIONALISM: POST-COLONIAL SCHOLARSHIP AND RACE IN CZECH AND SLOVAK HISTORIOGRAPHY