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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827182003321

Titolo

When the world turned upside-down : cultural representations of post-1989 Eastern Europe / / editor, Kathleen Starck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-41492-5

9786612414923

1-4438-1619-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

StarckKathleen

Disciplina

303.4824047

Soggetti

East Europeans in literature

Europe, Eastern Foreign public opinion

Europe, Eastern Foreign relations 1989-

Europe, Eastern Relations Europe, Western

Europe, Western Relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern In literature

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS; POST EAST-WEST? AN INTRODUCTION; TRANSFERENCE, TEMPORALITY, AND IDENTITIES IN TRANSIT; DIMENSIONS OF THE PRESENT MOMENT; BOSNIAN WAYS OF BEING AMERICAN; MALCOLM BRADBURY; EXPLORING THE PRESENT THROUGH THE PAST-WHOSE PRESENT?; EMERGING PASTS; ACROSS THE LINE; CAN THE EAST GERMAN SPEAK?- IDEOLOGIES OF MEMORY; WALK/DON'T WALK; DISTURBANCE EAST. PUNKS IN EAST BERLIN. MEMORY, GENDER AND COLD WAR IN A POST-1989 TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY; EASTERN EUROPE AS THE OTHER; REDRESSING ABSENCE; AN-OTHER EAST; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays explores post-1989 Western perceptions of Eastern Europe and how these manifest themselves in cultural representations. It starts out from findings in the academic field of "post-socialism", claiming that "Easterners" and "Westerners" are still very much under the influence of the socialisation they underwent



during the Cold War and its aftermath. As a consequence, the revolutions of 1989 and 1990 and the subsequent opportunities for exchange did not necessarily brin...