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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.
Contents
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
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