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Evgenii Vodolazkin
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Product details
- ISBN 9781526191038
- Weight: 644g
- Dimensions: 216 x 138mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings explores the ghosts of colonial and totalitarian pasts that have resurfaced across international political and cultural landscapes since the collapse of the USSR. Merging postcolonial, post-totalitarian, postcommunist and Gothic frameworks, the volume examines largely overlooked dimensions of cultural decolonisation, focusing on the unsettling “hauntings” of unresolved memory traces of Russo-Soviet domination in former Eastern Bloc countries and Soviet republics. Working within a wide intertextual field of social, cultural and ideological discourses, it fosters productive exchange across disciplinary boundaries and brings together voices from Europe and North America. Contributors draw on transmedia approaches—literature, visual art, film—as well as transnational and translingual perspectives, illuminating the diverse forms the Gothic has taken in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries and its persistent engagement with history, ideology and politics.
Svitlana (Lana) Krys is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at MacEwan University, Canada
Maryna Romanets is Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
