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.
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.
Monika Glosowitz
Magdalena Baran-Szołtys
Mariella C. Gronenthal
Iris Llop
Jagoda Wierzejska
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| Edited by | Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys |
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| Contributions by | Aleksandra Konarzewska, Magdalena Baran-Szołtys, Mariella C. Gronenthal, Iris Llop, Jagoda Wierzejska |
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166
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Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa
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31.10.2018
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English
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Paperback
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21,0 cm x 14,8 cm
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978-3-8382-1225-8
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163 g
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"[…] 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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