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Tlostanova tackles various creative representations of the intersections of the postcolonial and postsocialist experience seen through the prism of the basic ontological constants of time and space and in the context of the present-day theoretical spatial turn. Critically analysing the well-known spatial-temporal models of chronotope (Bakhtin) and heterotopia (Foucault), the chapter introduces a decolonial concept of tempo-locality touching upon those aspects of the human condition and its artistic representations which have been left out in most Occidentalist theories. Drawing on the vast number of examples from postsocialist fiction, documentary and feature films, and contemporary art, Tlostanova focuses on such specific post-dependence tempo-localities as transit, in-betweenness and border, the postcolonial/postimperial city, the tempo-local dimensions of postcolonial/postsocialist wars, and post-apocalyptic and post-idyllic temporal-spatial models.

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    Volos having entertained himself with social, and almost documentary novels (Real Estate 2001) and with the still gripping Soviet past (Traitor 2011), recently came back to Tadzhik culture and wrote a prize-winning, exquisite, and refined narrative surpassing time, and telling his version of the life story of Abu Abdollah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki – a famous medieval Persian poet. In 2013 this writer was awarded the Russian Booker Prize for his novel about a ninth-century Tadzhik poet. The historical and political analogies seem to be less important for Volos at this point than his more and more pronounced feeling that people have not changed, that they are unfortunately the same as a thousand years ago, but a true poet, a real thinker, an authentic clairvoyant surpasses time and history, human cruelty and injustice. It is important that overcoming and recognition comes as usual in another world. The return of Rudaki to his native Panjrud is a way to death as redemption and transcendence (Volos 2013).

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Tlostanova, M. (2017). Postsocialist/Postcolonial Tempo-Localities. In: Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48445-7_5

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