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Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped dispenses with scholars' long-time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area's non-contiguous-and frequently global or extraterritorial-entanglements.
List of contents
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe
Yuliya Komska PART I: RE-PLACED RELIGION Chapter 1. The "Jewish Pope" in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity
Miriam Udel Chapter 2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans
Piro Rexhepi PART II: DISLODGED DISSENT Chapter 3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals
Tatsiana Astrouskaya Chapter 4. Re-reading
Kultura from a Distance
Jessie Labov PART III: FICTIONAL CARTOGRAPHIES AND TEMPORALITIES Chapter 5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe¿
Daniel Pratt Chapter 6. The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces
Ioana Luca PART IV: APPROPRIATED AFTERLIVES Chapter 7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznan and Olsztyn's Bet Tahara
Sarah M. Schlachetzki Chapter 8. Bruno Schulz's Murals,
Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive
Adam Zachary Newton PART V: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES Chapter 9. The Balkan Notebooks
Ann Cvetkovich Chapter 10. A Polish Childhood
Irene Kacandes Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn
Vitaly Chernetsky Index
About the author
Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. She edits the “Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies” series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.
Yuliya Komska is Associate Professor of German Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and a co-author of Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language (Palgrave, 2018). She has recently written about the transatlantic impact and memory of Radio Free Europe in both East and West.
Summary
Arguably more than any other world regions, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Rather than expound on borders and neighbors, Eastern Europe Unmapped raises questions about the meaning and relevance of the area's non-contiguous, frequently global or extraterritorial, entanglements.
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“This is an exciting collection that appears at a moment when scholars in eastern European studies are exploring new modes of connecting postsocialism and postcoloniality. It makes an original contribution to this emerging subdiscipline, and is highly likely to stimulate new scholarship.” · Catherine Baker, University of Hull
