Postsocialist Landscapes Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang Thomas Lahusen, Schamma Schahadat

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lahusen, Thomas <p>Thomas Lahusen, University of Toronto, Kanada</p>, Editor.

Schahadat, Schamma <p>Schamma Schahadat, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Deutschland</p>, Editor.

Series:

Culture & theory ; Volume 230.

Edition Kulturwissenschaft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

(Post-)Socialism.

Urban Studies.

Literature.

East European Studies.

Hybrid Spatialities.

Memory Culture.

Space.

Society.

Cultural Studies.

Local Subjects:

(Post-)Socialism.

Urban Studies.

Literature.

East European Studies.

Hybrid Spatialities.

Memory Culture.

Space.

Society.

Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Lahusen/Schahadat (eds.), Postsocialist Landscapes Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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.

Summary:

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.

»It makes for intriguing and insightful reading.«

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783839451243

3839451248

OCLC:

1152158422