Session Details

Saturday, 30 December

681. Postcolonialism in the Context of the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe

10:15–11:30 a.m., Anthony, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Slavic and East European Literatures

Presiding: Tamara Trojanowska, Univ. of Toronto

1. “Theorizing Cultural Change in Postcolonial Poland,” Magdalena Kay, Univ. of California, Berkeley

2. “Croatia’s Underground Woman: Fratricide, Sexual Politics, and the Perils of Postmodernity in Vedrana Rudan’s Uho, grlo, noz (Night),” Michele Levy, North Carolina A&T State Univ.

3. “Of War Refugees, Exiles, and Cosmopolitan Asymmetries: Dubravka Ugresic’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender and Aleksandar Hemon’s Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls,” Gorica Majstorovic, Richard Stockton Coll. of New Jersey

4. “The Balkans between Postcolonial and Balkan: Exclusivity of the Other,” Damjana Mraovic, Penn State Univ., University Park

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