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Tlostanova traces the specific features of decolonial art in Eurasian borderlands – the former and present non-European colonies of the Russian/Soviet empire. The chapter focuses on the evolution of decolonial sensibilities, optics, and poetological devices in the arts of the Caucasus, Central and partly North-Eastern Asia in the last several decades, from the ethnic renaissances of the late Soviet years to radical actionism and tongue-in-cheek conceptualism of contemporary decolonial artists. Along with a wider panorama of mostly dissident Eurasian authors focusing on the issues of dehumanization, the unhomed condition, and the miseries of self-Orientalizing, Tlostanova offers three more detailed case studies of the representative figures in decolonial art of the Eurasian borderlands–Yerbossyn Meldibekov, Saule Suleymenova, and Zorikto Dorzhiev.
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Tlostanova, M. (2017). Decolonial Art in Eurasian Borderlands. In: Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48445-7_3
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