Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries

by Irene Kacandes (Editor), Yuliya Komska (Editor)

Overview

Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural—economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped dispenses with scholars’ long—time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area’s non—contiguous—and frequently global or extraterritorial—entanglements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785336850
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	10/01/2017
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. She edits the “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and Figures

Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe
Yuliya Komska

PART I: RE—PLACED RELIGION

Chapter 1. The "Jewish Pope" in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity
Miriam Udel

Chapter 2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans
Piro Rexhepi

PART II: DISLODGED DISSENT

Chapter 3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals
Tatsiana Astrouskaya

Chapter 4. Re—reading Kultura from a Distance
Jessie Labov

PART III: FICTIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIES

Chapter 5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe
Daniel Pratt

Chapter 6. The Transnational Matrix of Post—Communist Spaces
Ioana Luca

PART IV: APPROPRIATED AFTERLIVES

Chapter 7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznań and Olsztyn’s Bet Tahara
Sarah M. Schlachetzki

Chapter 8. Bruno Schulz’s Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive
Adam Zachary Newton

PART V: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES

Chapter 9. The Balkan Notebooks
Ann Cvetkovich

Chapter 10. A Polish Childhood
Irene Kacandes

Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn
Vitaly Chernetsky

Index

Editorial Reviews

“This collection joins a growing dissatisfaction on how we see, interpret, and portray Eastern Europe…[It] is refreshingly rich in references to lesser known recent texts on Eastern Europe, many of which have been neglected in the Anglophone literature.” • Journal of Soviet & Post—Soviet Politics & Society

“Eastern Europe Unmapped lays the conceptual and empirical groundwork for a substantial new body of research. Building on a trend in the field of East European history away from the old East—West diffusion paradigm and toward transnational history, it offers an insightful critique of two dominant scholarly paradigms.” • Austrian History Yearbook

“The volume's big achievement is its ‘unmapped’ thesis…German and East European language/comp lit specialists and adventurous interdisciplinarians will find a lot that is useful in Eastern Europe Unmapped, a smart and eclectic analysis of human geographical landscapes.” • Sehepunkte

“This is an exciting collection that appears at a moment when scholars in eastern European studies are exploring new modes of connecting postsocialism and postcoloniality. It makes an original contribution to this emerging subdiscipline, and is highly likely to stimulate new scholarship.” • Catherine Baker, University of Hull

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