ISBN:
9780253110350
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0253110351
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0253111242
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9780253111241
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 320 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Over the wall/after the fall
DDC:
303.40947
Keywords:
Social change Europe, Eastern
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Social change Former Soviet republics
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Post-communism Europe, Eastern
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Post-communism Former Soviet republics
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Changement social Europe de l'Est
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Changement social Ex-URSS
;
Postcommunisme Europe de l'Est
;
Postcommunisme Ex-URSS
;
Social change
;
Social change
;
Post-communism
;
Post-communism
;
Social change
;
Post-communism
;
Post-communism
;
Social change
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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Civilization
;
Post-communism
;
Social change
;
Postcommunisme
;
Sociale verandering
;
Europe, Eastern Civilization
;
Former Soviet republics Civilization
;
Europe de l'Est Civilisation
;
Ex-URSS Civilisation
;
Europe, Eastern
;
Soviet Union
;
Former Soviet republics
;
Europe, Eastern Civilization
;
Former Soviet republics Civilization
;
Europe, Eastern Civilization
;
Former Soviet republics Civilization
;
Soviet Union ; Former Soviet republics
;
Eastern Europe
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
" ... 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. Drawing on in
Abstract:
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."
Description / Table of Contents:
How I found Eastern Europe : televisual geography, travel sites, and museum installations / Andaluna BorcilaThe 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."
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
