ULBANDUS 7

[Jonathan Brooks Platt]

The Slavic department of Columbia University is pleased to announce the
publication of ULBANDUS 7 (2003), entitled "Empire, Union, Center,
Satellite: The Place of Post-Colonial Theory in Slavic/Central and Eastern
European/(Post-)Soviet Studies."

This issue of ULBANDUS features an article by Vitaly Chernetsky on
post-colonialism and Ukraine, an essay by David Goldfarb on the Polish
poet in exile, and a questionnaire on the applicability of post-colonial
theory to study of the region from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Respondents include Bruce Grant, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Alexander
Etkind, and others.

Other topics discussed include African themes in Gumilev's poetry,
provincial melancholy in Chekhov, representations of Kyrgyzstan in
Konchalovsky's _First Teacher_, Belinsky's imperial consciousness,
Brodsky's Venice, encounters with the other in the various versions of
Solaris, and the black diaspora in Russia. The journal also offers a
review of post-colonial discussions in the Russian thick journals, _Novoe
Literaturnoe Obozrenie_ and _Ab Imperio_.

For information about subscriptions please visit our website:

www.columbia.edu/cu/slavic/ulbandus


Jonathan Brooks Platt
Editor-in-Chief

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