1st Edition
Transatlantic Central Europe Contesting Geography and Redifining Culture beyond the Nation
By Jessie Labov
Copyright 2019
246 Pages
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Central European University Press
While there are still occasional uses of it today, the term Central Europe carries little of the charge that it did in the 1980s and early 1990s, and as a political and intellectual project it has receded from the horizon. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of these countries—all involved now in the process of Transatlantic integration—used Central European, as a contestation with the... Read more
List of Figures, List of Maps, Introduction: Movements of Texts across Borders PART I: Cross Currents and Its Transatlantic Central European Imaginary Chapter One: The Political-Cultural Journal: The Case of Cross Currents Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture Distribution and Diaspora Why The New York Review of Books? The Postcolonial Intersection Cross Currents as Essay and Encyclopedia Chapter Two: The Debate over Central Europe—from Jews to Yugoslavia The Domains of Central Europe Divergent Definitions of Central Europe: Mi?osz and Kundera Flight from Byzantium: Kundera vs. Brodsky on Dostoyevsky The Lisbon Conference: May 7-8, 1988 The North-South Axis Returns: Central and Southeastern Europe Two Yugoslav Entries: Vladimir Dedijer and Danilo KiŠ PART II: Further Essays in Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture Chapter Three: Borders, Editors, and Readers in Motion The Need for New Geographies Interwar Hungary beyond Its Borders Parallel Routes from Independence through War: Giedroyc and Grydzewski, Part I Polish Émigré Publishing after the Second World War: Giedroyc and Grydzewski, Part II Reading Kultura from a Distance Towards an Extra-Territorial Literature Chapter Four: Transmedial Work-Arounds after 1989 Moving beyond Text and Context Abuses of the Helsinki Charter in Yugoslavia (1989) The Case of Radio B92/B2-92: From Analog to Digital Practices (1990s) Ukraine, Belarus, and beyond Central Europe (2000s): From Online to Offline Work-Arounds, Conclusion: Redefining Transatlantic Central Europe Today Bibliography, Index
Biography
Jessie Labov is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society at Central European University, Budapest.
