What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?

What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet?
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9780822371632
ISBN-13 : 0822371634
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Book Synopsis What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? by : Madina Tlostanova

Download or read book What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? written by Madina Tlostanova and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Madina Tlostanova traces how contemporary post-Soviet art mediates this human condition. Observing how the concept of the happy future—which was at the core of the project of Soviet modernity—has lapsed from the post-Soviet imagination, Tlostanova shows how the possible way out of such a sense of futurelessness lies in the engagement with activist art. She interviews artists, art collectives, and writers such as Estonian artist Liina Siib, Uzbek artist Vyacheslav Akhunov, and Azerbaijani writer Afanassy Mamedov who frame the post-Soviet condition through the experience and expression of community, space, temporality, gender, and negotiating the demands of the state and the market. In foregrounding the unfolding aesthesis and activism in the post-Soviet space, Tlostanova emphasizes the important role that decolonial art plays in providing the foundation upon which to build new modes of thought and a decolonial future.


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