Postsocialist Landscapes: Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837651249)

Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations, whilst remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, presenting a mixture of real and imaginary spaces, of memory and nostalgia, of aesthetic and political symbolism, of the global East and the global South, of academic and essayistic writing. It casts a glance at the heterogeneous relics of socialism and their transformation in very different parts of the world. From the description of (post-)socialist interiors, fa軋des, neighborhoods, parks, monuments, and objects towards the imaginary spaces of literature, the contributors describe the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left of the second world today.

Author: Thomas Lahusen
ISBN-10: 383765124X
ISBN-13: 9783837651249
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2020
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d