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Vitaly Chernetsky.
Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of
Globalization, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
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.
In Mapping Postcommunist Cultures Chernetsky argues that Russia and Ukraine
exemplify the principal paradigms of post-Soviet cultural development. In
Russia this has manifested itself in the subversive dismantling of the
totalitarian linguistic regime and the foregrounding of previously
marginalized subject positions. In Ukraine, work in these areas shows how
the traumas of centuries of colonial oppression are being overcome through
the carnivalesque decrowning of ideological dogmas and an affirmation of a
new type of community, most recently demonstrated in the peaceful Orange
Revolution of 2004. Mapping Postcommunist Cultures also critiques the
neglect of the former communist world in current models of cultural
globalization.
Mapping Postcommunist Cultures
Vitaly Chernetsky
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
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 the 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 the Traumas: The Gendered/Nationed Body as Narrative and
Spectacle
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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