East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: A Critical Introduction

Chapter 2 East Central Europe as a Historical and Conceptual Space: On the Production of Knowledge from an (Historical) Area Studies Perspective

Chapter 3 Polish Stereotypes of the East: Old and New Mechanisms of Orientalisation in the Regional and Transnational Dimensions

Chapter 4 Colonial Ambivalence and Its Aftermath: Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism in Independent Poland and Ireland

Chapter 5 The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualisation of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement

Chapter 6 Reportage from the (Post-)Contact Zone: Polish Travellers to Decolonised India (1950–1980)

Chapter 7 An East Central European “Sahib” in a Former Colony: Andrzej Bobkowski in Guatemala (1948–1961)

Chapter 8 Regained Landscapes: The Transfer of Power and Tradition in Polish Discourse of the Regained Territories

Chapter 10 Soviet Colonialism Reloaded: Encounters Between Russians and East Central Europeans in Contemporary Literature