Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-685-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped dispenses with scholars’ long-time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area’s non-contiguous—and frequently global or extraterritorial—entanglements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kacandes, Irene

Komska, Yuliya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps and Figures

Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe

Yuliya Komska

PART I: RE-PLACED RELIGION

Chapter 1. The "Jewish Pope" in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity

Miriam Udel

Chapter 2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans

Piro Rexhepi

PART II: DISLODGED DISSENT

Chapter 3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals

Tatsiana Astrouskaya

Chapter 4. Re-reading Kultura from a Distance

Jessie Labov

PART III: FICTIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIES

Chapter 5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe

Daniel Pratt

Chapter 6. The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces

Ioana Luca

PART IV: APPROPRIATED AFTERLIVES

Chapter 7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznan and Olsztyn’s Bet Tahara

Sarah M. Schlachetzki

Chapter 8. Bruno Schulz’s Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive

Adam Zachary Newton

PART V: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

Chapter 9. The Balkan Notebooks

Ann Cvetkovich

Chapter 10. A Polish Childhood

Irene Kacandes

Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn

Vitaly Chernetsky

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kacandes, Irene
Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. She edits the “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.

Komska, Yuliya
Yuliya Komska is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and a co-author of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave, 2018). She has recently written about the transatlantic impact and memory of Radio Free Europe in both East and West.

Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. She edits the “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.