Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization(BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

This book examines communist and post-communist literary and visual narratives, including the writings of prominent anti-communist dissidents and exiles such as Vladimir Nabokov, Czeslaw Milosz and Milan Kundera, exploring important themes including how Eastern European regimes and cultures have been portrayed as totalitarian, barbarian and "Orientalist" - in contrast to the civilized "West" - dis