17 research outputs found
Kas post - postkoloniaalses on post - postsovetlikus? Globaalse postkoloniaalse kriitika poole.
Kevin K. Gaines. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv + 342 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Cloth.
(De)Touring Europe: The Balkan, The Postcolonial and Christos Tsiolkasâs Dead Europe
This article will interrogate the fictional mobilisation of âthe Balkanâ as a trope in Christos Tsiolkasâs novel Dead Europe. Reversing the conventions of European travel writing, the novel stages a shambolic Grand Tour of vampiric contamination, which exposes the vacuity of Europeâs self-professed ideals of progress, rationality and liberalism. Whilst bearing the imprint of a recognisable Balkanist rhetoric which locates the origins of racial prejudice in a Second World War Greek village and the excesses of conspicuous consumption in a contemporary Athens, Dead Europe also presents âthe Balkanâ as a disruptive medium which jostles the Australian protagonist out of his political complacency and awakens him to his own visceral, if spectral, relation to prejudice. âThe Balkanâ in this set-up does not function as a mere backdrop to identify against; rather, it is a site of a radical interrogation of the coherence, boundedness and erasures of the (Australian and European) self â an interrogation that confronts without offering a solution or redemption