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Over the wall/after the fall : post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze / edited by Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2004.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253110350
  • 0253110351
  • 0253111242
  • 9780253111241
  • 1282072285
  • 9781282072282
  • 9786612072284
  • 6612072288
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Over the wall/after the fall.DDC classification:
  • 303.4/0947 22
LOC classification:
  • HN380.7.A8 O9 2004eb
Other classification:
  • 15.70
  • KD 5035
  • MG 80010
  • MG 80930
  • NQ 8273
Online resources:
Contents:
How I found Eastern Europe : televisual geography, travel sites, and museum installations / Andaluna Borcila -- The nation in between ; or, why intellectuals do things with words / Elena Gapova -- Prenzlauer Berg connections : the trajectory of East German samizdat culture from socialism to capitalism / Lisa Whitmore -- Reading transparent "constructions of history" ; or, Three passages through (in)visible Warsaw / Magdalena Zaborowska -- Can Prague learn from L.A.? Frank Gehry's Netherlands National Building in Prague / David Houston -- Heteroglossia and linguistic neocolonialism : English teaching in post-1989 Poland / Bill Johnston -- Projections of desire : Robert D. Kaplan's Balkan ghosts and the crisis of self-definition / Anca Rosu -- Shifting a cultural paradigm : between the mystique and the marketing of Polish theatre / Halina Filipowicz -- "Hurrah, I'm still alive!" East German products demonstrating East German identities / Rainer Gries -- Cryptographic art of Bratislava : configurations of absence in postcommunist installation art / Paul Krainak -- "Move over Madonna" : gender, representation, and the "mystery" of Bulgarian voices / Carol Silverman -- Four bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema / Mark Andryczyk -- "Don't get pricked!" representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic / Vra Sokolová -- From big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) / "Benni Goodman."
Summary: " ... A hot subject in today's scholarship ... and a groundbreaking project of vital significance to the field of cultural studies at both 'western' and 'eastern' geographical locations."--Elwira GrossmanOver the Wall/After the Fall maps a new discourse on the evolution of cultural life in Eastern Europe following the end of communism. Departing from traditional binary views of East/West, the contributors to this volume consider the countries and the peoples of the region on their own terms. Drawing on in
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

How I found Eastern Europe : televisual geography, travel sites, and museum installations / Andaluna Borcila -- The nation in between ; or, why intellectuals do things with words / Elena Gapova -- Prenzlauer Berg connections : the trajectory of East German samizdat culture from socialism to capitalism / Lisa Whitmore -- Reading transparent "constructions of history" ; or, Three passages through (in)visible Warsaw / Magdalena Zaborowska -- Can Prague learn from L.A.? Frank Gehry's Netherlands National Building in Prague / David Houston -- Heteroglossia and linguistic neocolonialism : English teaching in post-1989 Poland / Bill Johnston -- Projections of desire : Robert D. Kaplan's Balkan ghosts and the crisis of self-definition / Anca Rosu -- Shifting a cultural paradigm : between the mystique and the marketing of Polish theatre / Halina Filipowicz -- "Hurrah, I'm still alive!" East German products demonstrating East German identities / Rainer Gries -- Cryptographic art of Bratislava : configurations of absence in postcommunist installation art / Paul Krainak -- "Move over Madonna" : gender, representation, and the "mystery" of Bulgarian voices / Carol Silverman -- Four bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema / Mark Andryczyk -- "Don't get pricked!" representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic / Vra Sokolová -- From big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) / "Benni Goodman."

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" ... A hot subject in today's scholarship ... and a groundbreaking project of vital significance to the field of cultural studies at both 'western' and 'eastern' geographical locations."--Elwira GrossmanOver the Wall/After the Fall maps a new discourse on the evolution of cultural life in Eastern Europe following the end of communism. Departing from traditional binary views of East/West, the contributors to this volume consider the countries and the peoples of the region on their own terms. Drawing on in

English.

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