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Formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations while remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, describing ...
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Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, façades, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the »second world« today.
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Price: $55.00
Pages: 328
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 April 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837651249
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History
»It makes for intriguing and insightful reading.«

Thomas Lahusen is a professor at the Department of History and Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. After studying in Switzerland and Poland, he earned his Doctorat ès lettres at the University of Lausanne. Besides writing academic texts about Russia, Kyrgyzstan and China, he directed a number of documentary films.
Schamma Schahadat is a professor of Slavic literatures and cultures at the University of Tübingen. She is working on Russian and Polish literature and film from a cultural studies perspective.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
The Ideological Park: How the Tsar's Garden in Kyiv Became a Modern Political Space 25
The Last Soviet City 47
Spaces of Detachment 67
Contemporary Ukrainian Russian-Language Poetry and Post-Soviet Literary Space 95
(Re)Inventing (East) Central Europe: Literary Expeditions into a Lost Space 117
Postsocialist Hybridities: Finding a Place in Kyrgyzstan 143
Space under Siege. Sarajevo during and after the War 161
The Limits of Central Planning: Rudimentary Town Centers in the Planned Cities of Stalinstadt and Sztálinváros 183
Neighborhood Socialism: A Memoir from 1960s Sofia 205
Mourning the Microrayon: An Essay in Affective Geography 217
(Re)Mapping National Space: The One Hundred Tourist Sites of Bulgaria and Their Metamorphoses 235
The Monument de la Renaissance africaine and Global Routes of (Socialist) Monumentalism: New York, Moscow, Pyongyang, Dakar 255
The Gendered Anxieties of Apartment Living in North Korea, 1953-65 281
Unreal Estate: Postsocialist China's Dystopic Dreamscapes 305
Authors 321