Mapping postcommunist cultures : Russia and Ukraine in the context of globalization /

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chernetsky, Vitaly (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=404547
Table of Contents:
  • Cultural globalization, the "posts," and the second world
  • Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or The Transformational Momentum of Sots-Art
  • Travels through Heterotopia : the other worlds of post-Soviet Russian fiction
  • Transfigurations : postmodern articulations of gender and corporeality
  • The end of house arrest : queerness and textuality in contemporary Russia
  • Allegorical journeys, or The Metamorphoses of Magic Realism
  • The (post) colonial (post) carnivalesque, or The poetics and politics of Bu-Ba-Bu
  • Confronting traumas : the gendered/nationed body as narrative and spectacle.