Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the

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 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.
Country USA
Brand McGill-Queen's University Press
Manufacturer McGill-Queen's University Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780773531239
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	McGill-Queen's University Press
Manufacturer	McGill-Queen's University Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780773531239
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization