Postsocialist Landscapes : : Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang /

Postsocialist Landscapes : : Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang / / ed. by Schamma Schahadat, Thomas Lahusen.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
MitwirkendeR:
Beganović, Davor,
Brown, Kate,
Ditchev, Ivaylo,
Drews-Sylla, Gesine,
Egemberdieva, Gulzat,
Frank, Susi K.,
Koleva, Daniela,
Lahusen, Thomas,
Lam, Tong,
László-Herbert, Mark,
Mizrokhi, Ekaterina,
Oushakine, Serguei Alex.,
Schahadat, Schamma,
Schmid, Andre,
Yekelchyk, Serhy,
HerausgeberIn:
Lahusen, Thomas,
Schahadat, Schamma,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 230
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: History’s Playground
  • The Ideological Park: How the Tsar’s Garden in Kyiv Became a Modern Political Space
  • The Last Soviet City
  • Spaces of Detachment
  • Part 2: Friendship of the Peoples?
  • Contemporary Ukrainian Russian-Language Poetry and Post-Soviet Literary Space
  • (Re)Inventing (East) Central Europe: Literary Expeditions into a Lost Space
  • Postsocialist Hybridities: Finding a Place in Kyrgyzstan
  • Space under Siege. Sarajevo during and after the War
  • Part 3: “Minus Stalin”
  • The Limits of Central Planning: Rudimentary Town Centers in the Planned Cities of Stalinstadt and Sztálinváros
  • Neighborhood Socialism: A Memoir from 1960s Sofia
  • Mourning the Microrayon: An Essay in Affective Geography
  • (Re)Mapping National Space: The One Hundred Tourist Sites of Bulgaria and Their Metamorphoses
  • Part 4: Traveling Boundaries
  • The Monument de la Renaissance africaine and Global Routes of (Socialist) Monumentalism: New York, Moscow, Pyongyang, Dakar
  • The Gendered Anxieties of Apartment Living in North Korea, 1953-65
  • Unreal Estate: Postsocialist China’s Dystopic Dreamscapes
  • Authors

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