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Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings

Neo-Gothic Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe Since 1989
Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
2026
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526191038 (ISBN)
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Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings conceptualizes neo-Gothic texts from the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet republics in postcolonial terms. It maps virtually untouched aspects of cultural decolonization, focusing on the uncanny return of repressed and unsettling “hauntings” of unresolved memory traces of Russo-Soviet domination. -- .
Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings attempts to capture some of the ghosts of the colonial and totalitarian past that have been proliferating in international political and cultural landscapes after the collapse of the USSR. By conflating postcolonial, post-totalitarian, postcommunist, and Gothic discourses, it maps virtually untouched aspects of cultural decolonization, focusing on unsettling “hauntings” of unresolved memory traces of Russo-Soviet domination in the former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet republics. Operating within a vast intertextual field of social, cultural, and ideological discourses, the volume enables a productive exchange across distinct (inter)disciplinary boundaries and represents a range of voices from Europe and North America. The contributors’ diverse interests draw on transmedia (literature, visual arts, and film), transnational, and translingual (diasporic literature) approaches, providing insights into a variety of forms that the Gothic has taken in the (late) twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and demonstrating its consistent engagement with history, ideology, and politics. -- .

Svitlana (Lana) Krys is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University, Canada Maryna Romanets is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada -- .

Introduction to Russo-Soviet imperialist hauntings— Maryna Romanets

I Art, performance, and film
1 The ghosts of the Soviet past in Natalia Vorozhbyt’s Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha— Oleksandra Wallo
2 Refusing to die: Neo-Gothic political fiction and post-Yugoslav cultural production— Mirjana Stošic3 Post-Soviet apocalypse in Gothic fiction and Gothic politics— Dina Khapaeva

II Gender, identity, and sexuality
4 Haunted in desolation: Queering the post-Soviet Latvian Gothic— Karlis Verdinš
5 Sophia Andrukhovych’s Felix Austria:The postcolonial neo-Gothic and Ukraine’s search for itself— Vitaly Chernetsky
6 Feminism as a Gothic “thoughtcrime”: Contextualizing Alma by Izabela Filipiak— Dorota Filipczak

III Spectral geographies, borderland, diaspora
7 The Eastern European monster reclaimed: Finding a voice in a postsocialist, postcolonial world— Eva R. Hudecova
8 Andriy Lyubka’s Carbide: Ukrainian democratic reforms through a dark glass— Svitlana (Lana) Krys
9 The madwoman on the farm: Witches in Ukrainian Canadian literature— Lindy Ledohowski

IV (Post)communism, totalitarianism, historical trauma
10 Spectrality, necropolitics, and Gothic topography of the city in Nikolai Grozni’s Wunderkind— Roberto Adinolfi and Maryna Romanets
11 Institutional Gothic in the novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin— Muireann Maguire
12 The tomb of the reluctant tyrant: Uncanny imaginings of totalitarianism in Ismail Kadare’s The Pyramid — Adriana Raducanu

Editors’ postscript: Cradle — Svitlana (Lana) Krysand Maryna Romanets
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.5.2026
Reihe/Serie International Gothic Series
Verlagsort Manchester
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13 9781526191038 / 9781526191038
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