Over the wall/after the fall : post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze

Over the wall/after the fall : post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze / edited by Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova.

" ... A hot subject in today's scholarship ... and a groundbreaking project of vital significance to the field of cultural studies at both 'western' and 'eastern' geographical locations."--Elwira GrossmanOver the Wall/After the Fall maps a new discourse on the evol...

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Other Authors: Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.), Zaborowska, Magdalena J., Gapova, Elena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Social change > Europe, Eastern.
Social change > Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Former Soviet republics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Civilization
Post-communism
Social change
Postcommunisme.
Sociale verandering.
Europe, Eastern > Civilization.
Former Soviet republics > Civilization.
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
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Table of Contents:
  • How I found Eastern Europe : televisual geography, travel sites, and museum installations / Andaluna Borcila
  • The nation in between ; or, why intellectuals do things with words / Elena Gapova
  • Prenzlauer Berg connections : the trajectory of East German samizdat culture from socialism to capitalism / Lisa Whitmore
  • Reading transparent "constructions of history" ; or, Three passages through (in)visible Warsaw / Magdalena Zaborowska
  • Can Prague learn from L.A.? Frank Gehry's Netherlands National Building in Prague / David Houston
  • Heteroglossia and linguistic neocolonialism : English teaching in post-1989 Poland / Bill Johnston
  • Projections of desire : Robert D. Kaplan's Balkan ghosts and the crisis of self-definition / Anca Rosu
  • Shifting a cultural paradigm : between the mystique and the marketing of Polish theatre / Halina Filipowicz
  • "Hurrah, I'm still alive!" East German products demonstrating East German identities / Rainer Gries
  • Cryptographic art of Bratislava : configurations of absence in postcommunist installation art / Paul Krainak
  • "Move over Madonna" : gender, representation, and the "mystery" of Bulgarian voices / Carol Silverman
  • Four bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema / Mark Andryczyk
  • "Don't get pricked!" representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic / Vra Sokolová
  • From big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) / "Benni Goodman."

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