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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958827403321

Titolo

Imagined Geographies : Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014 / / Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, Reinhard Ibler, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Mariella C. Gronenthal, Aleksandra Konarzewska, Iris Llop, Jagoda Wierzejska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2018

ISBN

9783838272252

3838272250

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa ; 17

Disciplina

320.44049

Soggetti

Osteuropa

Central Europe

Literatur

Literature

Politik

Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Central Europe and its 30 Good Years  (1984-2014) -- A Narrative Construction: The Idea of Central Eruope in Milan Kundera's Writings -- Galicia: An Eastern or a Western Land? Remarks on Locating the Province in the Framework of the East-West Opposition -- Andrzej Stasiuk's Galician 'Middle Europe': Half-Dark, Empty, and Boundless -- Longing for the Empty Space-Nostalgia and Central Europe -- Author Information -- Illustrations -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1984 Czech writer Milan Kundera published his essay 'The Tragedy of Central Europe' in The New York Review of Books, which established the framework for disputes about the space ‘between East and West’ for the following 30 years. Even today, the echo of those debates is still audible in spatial narratives. Discussing the way in which literary figures are positioned within new hierarchies such as gender, class, or



ethnicity, this volume shows how the space of the imagined Central Europe has been de- and reconstructed. Special attention is paid to the role of the past in shaping contemporary spatial discourse.