@article{1462142,
      recid = {1462142},
      author = {Huigen, Siegfried, and Kołodziejczyk, Dorota,},
      title = {Central Europe between the colonial and postcolonial in  the twentieth century /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume.) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This open access book explores the ambiguity of East  Central Europe during the twentieth century, examining  local contexts through a comparative and transnational  reworking of theoretical models in postcolonial studies.  Since the early modern period, East Central Europe has  arguably been an object of imperialism. However, at the  same time East Central European states have been seen to be  colonial actors, with individuals from the region often  associating themselves with colonial discourses in  extra-European contexts. Spanning a broad time period until  after the Second World War and covering the governance of  Communism and its legacies, the book examines how cultural  and literary narratives from East Central Europe have  created and revised historical knowledge, making use of  collective memory to feed into identity models. Siegfried  Huigen is Professor of Dutch and South African Literature  at the University of Wrocaw in Poland and Visiting  Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South  Africa. He has written and co-edited a number of books and  journal articles on colonialism in South Africa, Indonesia  and East Central Europe. His most recent book, Shaping a  Dutch East Indies (2023), explores the construction of an  authoritative representation of the Dutch colonial empire  at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Dorota  Koodziejczyk is Associate Professor at the Institute of  English Studies, University of Wrocaw, Poland. She is Chair  of Olga Tokarczuk Ex-Centre. Academic Research Centre,  Director of the Postcolonial Studies Centre and board  member of the Postdependence Studies Centre. Her  publications include Postcolonial Perspectives on  Postcommunism in Central and Eastern Europe (2016, 2018),  co-edited with Cristina Sandru, three issues of the  European Review co-edited with Siegfried Huigen, and  studies in comparative literature.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1462142},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17487-2},
}