Cluster on “Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe”

Table of contents:

Agnieszka Mrozik and Anja Tippner, Remembering Late Socialism in Autobiographical Novels and Autofictions from Central and Eastern Europe: Introduction

Agnieszka Mrozik, Growing Up as a Girl in Late Socialist Poland: The Personal, the Political and Class in Feminist Quasi-Autobiographical Novels by Izabela Filipiak and Joanna Bator

Anja Tippner, ‘How it all turned out alright’: Autofiction as Memory Form in Irena Dousková’s Novels about Childhood and Youth in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia

Doris Mironescu and Andreea Mironescu, Maximalist Autofiction, Surrealism and Late Socialism in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid

Ksenia Robbe, Reanimating/Resisting Late Soviet Monstrosity: Generational Self-Reflection and Lessons of Responsibility in Alexei Ivanov’s Pischeblok [The Food Unit]

Contributors

Agnieszka Mrozik is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

Anja Tippner is Full Professor of Slavic Literatures at Hamburg University. 

Doris Mironescu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Romanian Studies of “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, and a senior researcher with the “A. Philippide” Institute of the Romanian Academy.

Andreea Mironescu is a Senior Researcher at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Department within the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi. 

Ksenia Robbe is a Senior lecturer in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen with the focus on Russian literature and culture.