Mapping Postcommunist Cultures
Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2007
384 pages
978-0-7735-7650-6 (ISBN)
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Drawing on the discourses of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and globalization, Vitaly Chernetsky maps out the new cultural developments in literature, architecture, painting, film, and performance art emerging in Russia and Ukraine, the two largest successor states to the Soviet Union, situating these phenomena in a greater global context.
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Vitaly Chernetsky is assistant professor, Russian studies, Miami University (Ohio).Vitaly Chernetsky is assistant professor, Russian studies, Miami University (Ohio).
Vitaly Chernetsky is assistant professor, Russian studies, Miami University (Ohio).Vitaly Chernetsky is assistant professor, Russian studies, Miami University (Ohio).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliterations and Translations
- Preface
- 1 Cultural Globalization, the "Posts," and the Second World
- PART ONE: RUSSIA: POSTMODERN TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMMUNIST METROPOLY
- 2 Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or The Transformational Momentum of Sots-Art
- 3 Travels through Heterotopia: The Other Worlds of Post-Soviet Russian Fiction
- 4 Transfigurations: Postmodern Articulations of Gender and Corporeality
- 5 The End of House Arrest: Queerness and Textuality in Contemporary Russia
- PART TWO: UKRAINE: BEING POSTCOLONIAL IN THE SECOND WORLD
- 6 Allegorical Journeys, or The Metamorphoses of Magic Realism
- 7 The (Post)colonial (Post)carnivalesque, or The Poetics and Politics of Bu-Ba-Bu
- 8 Confronting Traumas: The Gendered/Nationed Body as Narrative and Spectacle
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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