Over the wall/after the fall : post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze /
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | xi, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5518783 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: Mapping Postsocialist Cultural Studies
- Part I. (Re)-Visitations
- 1. How I Found Eastern Europe: Televisual Geography, Travel Sites, and Museum Installations
- 2. The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things with Words
- 3. Prenzlauer Berg Connections: The Trajectory of East German Samizdat Culture from Socialism to Capitalism
- 4. Reading Transparent "Constructions of History"; or, Three Passages through (In)Visible Warsaw
- 5. Can Prague Learn from L.A.? Frank Gehry's Netherlands National Building in Prague
- 6. Heteroglossia and Linguistic Neocolonialism: English Teaching in Post-1989 Poland
- 7. Projections of Desire: Robert D. Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts and the Crisis of Self-Definition
- Part II. (Re-)Adaptations
- 8. Shifting a Cultural Paradigm: Between the Mystique and the Marketing of Polish Theatre
- 9. "Hurrah, I'm Still Alive!" East German Products Demonstrating East German Identities
- 10. Cryptographic Art of Bratislava: Configurations of Absence in Post-Communist Installation Art
- 11. "Move Over Madonna": Gender, Representation, and the "Mystery" of Bulgarian Voices
- 12. Four Bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema
- 13. "Don't Get Pricked!" Representation and the Politics of Sexuality in the Czech Republic
- Afterword: From Big Brother to Big Burger (And What's the Grand Narrative Got to Do with It?)
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index