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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808965503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-253-21696-6

9786612072284

1-282-07228-5

0-253-11035-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ForresterSibelan E. S (Sibelan Elizabeth S.)

ZaborowskaMagdalena J

GapovaElena

Disciplina

303.4/0947

Soggetti

Social change - Europe, Eastern

Social change - Former Soviet republics

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Post-communism - Former Soviet republics

Europe, Eastern Civilization

Former Soviet republics Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema / Mark Andryczyk -- "Don't get pricked!" representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic / Vra Sokolova -- From big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) / "Benni Goodman".

Sommario/riassunto

""... 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 evolution of cultural life in                Eastern Europe following the end of communism. Departing from traditional binary                views of East/West, the contributors to this volume consider the countries and the                peoples of the region on their own terms. D