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"Over 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 insights from cultural studies, gender theory, and postcolonial studies, this lively collection addresses gender issues and sexual politics, consumerism, high and popular culture, architecture, media, art, and theatre. Among the themes of the essays are the Western pop success of Bulgarian folk choirs, the Czechs' reception of Frank Gehry's unconventional building in the centre of Prague, bohemians in Lviv, and cryptographic art installations from Bratislava.
| ISBN | 0253216966 | | Pages | 360 | | ISBN13 | 9780253216960
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Indiana University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 526 | | Imprint | Indiana University Press | | Published in | Bloomington, IN | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 25 Nov 2004 | | Width (mm) | 154 | | Library of Congress | 2004006411 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 303.40947 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Introduction : mapping postsocialist cultural studies by Magdalena J. Zaborowska and Sibelan Forrester and Elena Gapova | | 1 | | 1 | | How I found Eastern Europe : televisual geography, travel sites, and museum installations by Andaluna Borcila | | 42 | | 2 | | The nation in between; or, why intellectuals do things with words by Elena Gapova | | 65 | | 3 | | Prenzlauer Berg connections : the trajectory of East German Samizdat culture from socialism to capitalism by Lisa Whitmore | | 88 | | 4 | | Reading transparent "constructions of history"; or, three passages through (in)visible Warsaw by Magdalena J. Zaborowska | | 97 | | 5 | | Can Prague learn from L.A.? : Frank Gehry's Netherlands National Building in Prague by David Houston | | 120 | | 6 | | Heteroglossia and linguistic neocolonialism : English teaching in post-1989 Poland by Bill Johnston | | 126 | | 7 | | Projections of desire : Robert D. Kaplan's Balkan ghosts and the crisis of self-definition by Anca Rosu | | 146 | | 8 | | Shifting a cultural paradigm : between the mystique and the marketing of Polish theatre by Halina Filipowicz | | 164 | | 9 | | "Hurrah, I'm still alive!" : East German products demonstrating East German identities by Rainer Gries | | 181 | | 10 | | Cryptographic art of Bratislava : configurations of absence in post-communist installation art by Paul Krainak | | 200 | | 11 | | "Move over Madonna" : gender, representation, and the "mystery" of Bulgarian voices by Carol Silverman | | 212 | | 12 | | Four bearings of west for the Lviv Bohema by Mark Andryczyk | | 238 | | 13 | | "Don't get pricked!" : representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic by Vera Sokolova | | 251 | | | | Afterword : from big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) by Benni Goodman | | 269 |
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