A POSTCOLONIAL AGE OR POSTCOLONIAL EAST AND CENTRAL EUROPE? (Okres postkolonialny czy postkolonialna Europa Wschodnia i Srodkowa)

• Authors: Scheibner Tamas
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the post-Soviet era, self-identification has been a priority issue that has shaped the public discourse in all East and Central European states. The local intelligentsia produced or renewed a wide range of ideologies which tried to place their more or less democratic, 'reborn' country on the global or regional map. At the same time, Western scholars specialized in Slavonic or Eastern European Studies (many of which were emigrants of these countries) also tried to reconfigure the global symbolic geography in various ways. From the mid-1990s, one of these latter attempts has been the excession and application of the terms 'postcolonial' or 'postcolonialism' on the so-called postcommunist societies. This essay calls attention to the history of this idea and explores the discursive conditions of the claim arguing that while in the context of public remembering it might be acceptable to use such a framework, it is hardly applicable to the whole region without any differentiation.

Keywords

EN

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES; HISTORY OF HUNGARY; POST-SOVIET ERA; POSTCOLONIAL DISCOURSE; POSTCOMMUNIST SOCIETY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Porównania
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 65-73
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Scheibner Tamas

• Tamas Scheibner, c/o University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08014