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.
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Aleksandra Konarzewska
Aleksandra Konarzewska ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. Zu ihren Forschungsschwerpunkten gehören die Literatur und Ideengeschichte Ost- und Zentraleuropas, Memory Studies sowie die gegenwärtige Nonfiction-Literatur.
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Monika Glosowitz
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Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
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Mariella C. Gronenthal
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Iris Llop
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Jagoda Wierzejska
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Lieferzeit 2-3 Werktage.
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| herausgegeben von | Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys |
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| Beiträge von | Aleksandra Konarzewska, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Mariella C. Gronenthal, Iris Llop, Jagoda Wierzejska |
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Seitenzahl |
166
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Erscheinungsdatum |
31.10.2018
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8,3 in x 5,8 in
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Englisch
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Paperback
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ISBN
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978-3-8382-1225-8
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Gewicht
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247 g
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„What is Central Europe? The discursive field that defines, reflects upon and depicts Central Europe, this collection of essays argues, is literature. Already in the 1980s, Milan Kundera argued that a political accident had moved countries which considered themselves the cultural center of Europe, Poland, the Czech Republic, or even Ukraine, into a political East, the Eastern bloc. The Center of Europe disappeared, and only after the fall of the Berlin Wall it started to reappear, mostly in literary and essayistic writing. The articles in this volume look closely at this writing and show how post-socialist literature moves back in time in order to revive a cultural European center. Nostalgic memories and mythic reveries evoke an image of Central Europe from a time before the world was divided into East and West."—Professor Schamma Schahadat, Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Tübingen
"[…] what is remarkable about Imagined Geographies: Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014 is the way its authors combine the theories of acknowledged scholars and thinkers such as Edward Said (1978), Benedict Anderson (1983) and Edward Soja (1996) with the ideas of brilliant writers and litterateurs like Milan Kundera or Andrzej Stasiuk. It is broadly known that geography is an interdisciplinary field of science but geopoetics in the border zone of geography and literature has been a less known subdiscipline up until today. With the publishing of Imagined Geographies not only the Central Europe debate gets enriched with new theories, ideas, and information, but the readers (both academic and non-academic) can discover a new domain of the discourse – the spatial narratives constructed by literature."—Bálint Kronstein, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin 69 2020 (4)
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