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Aleksandra Glosowitz Konarzewska, Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys - Imagined Geographies, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Imagined Geographies

Central European Spatial Narratives between 1984 and 2014

Av Aleksandra Glosowitz Konarzewska, Aleksandra Konarzewska, Monika Glosowitz, Magdalena Baran-Szoltys

Del 17 i serien Literatur und Kultur im mittleren und östlichen Europa

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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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„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

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