Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons – Western Representations of East European Women

Valentina Glajar is assistant professor of German at Texas State University-San Marcos. Domnica Radulescu is professor of French and Italian literatures at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

These essays open new areas of research for scholars interested in gender and eastern Europe... Highly recommended. Choice An important and timely publication... This book makes a significant contribution to both Slavic and gender studies. -- Olga Mesropova, Iowa State University Slavic & East European Journal

• Introduction, by Domnica Radulescu and Valentina Glajar La Jeanne d'Arc des Steppes: A Ukrainian Peasant Girl as Heroine of the Third Republic, by Ksenya Kiebuzinski "Half-Asia": Local Women at the European Periphery in German-Language Travel Writings, by Valentina Glajar "A Night with La Draculetta": Designing/Desiring Romanian Diva Angela Gheorghiu, by Piya Pal-Lapinski Clavdia Chauchat: Hans Castorp's Significant Other in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, by Debra Prager Eastern Women in Western Chronotopes: The Representation of East European Women in Western Films after 1989, by Roumiana Deltcheva Portraits of Eastern European Women in Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Torleb and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader, by Anca Holden Eastern Girls, Western Boys: The Image of the Eastern European Woman in Birthday Girl, by Agnieszka Tuszynska Mad Voices in the Forest: Caryl Churchill's Configurations of Women in Pre-Post Communist Romania, by Ileana Orlich Capturing Chechnya: Representations of Chechen Women by Western Journalists, by Anna Brodsky