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1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social change -- Europe, Eastern.
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Social change. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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Social change -- Former Soviet republics.
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Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
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Post-communism. |
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Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.
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Europe, Eastern -- Civilization.
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Civilization. |
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Former Soviet republics -- Civilization.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.)
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Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
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Gapova, Elena.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Over the wall/after the fall. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253344328 0253216966 (DLC) 2004006411 (OCoLC)54803627 |
| ISBN |
9780253110350 |
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0253110351 |
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0253111242 |
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9780253111241 |
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1282072285 |
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9781282072282 |
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0253344328 |
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9780253344328 |
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0253216966 |
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9780253216960 |
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