Postcommunism, postmodernism, and the global imagination
By: Christian Moraru, editor ; introduction by Aaron Chandler
Series: East European monographs -- no. DCCLIV; East European monographs -- no. 754.
Publisher: East European Monographs; Distributed by Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder, CO; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780880336529
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); East European literature; Globalization in literature; History and criticism
Description: "The essays in Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imagination set out to examine the ways post-Cold War accelerated globalization has been reshaping Central and East European literatures, cultures, and theoretical-ideological debates, in particular those aesthetic and cultural practices and discourses revolving around experimentalism, the neo-avant-garde, and, most importantly, postmodernism." "Questions posed by the contributors include: Which new configurations of theme, form, and ideology have emerged in the former communist countries in the post-1989 global world? What is the impact of globalization on cultural traditions, old and recent, in this geopolitically fluid part of Europe? How do these countries' writers, artists, critics, and public intellectuals see themselves in the new, evolving context? More basically, how do they imagine the globalizing planet and themselves in it? How do they picture themselves and their lands in the process of "going global," as individuals and communities resist or complicate globalization?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Christian Moraru -- Introduction :; title: imagination without walls  -- Aaron Chandler; title: Shifting paradigms :; title: East European literatures at the turn of the millennium  -- Marcel Cornis-Pope; title: Cosmallogy :; title: Mircea Cărtărescu's Nostalgia--the body, the city, the world  -- Christian Moraru; title: The screen of the city :; title: Sofia's transitional urbanscapes, 1989-2007  -- Alexander Kiossev; title: Facing globalization :; title: Lithuanian urbanism between postcommunism and postmodernity  -- Almantas Samalavicius; title: Shakespeare after shock therapy :; title: neoliberalism and culture in the postcommunist Czech Republic  -- Marcela Kostihová; title: Kadare after communism :; title: Albania, the Balkans, and Europe in the Post-1990 work of Ismail Kadare  -- Peter Morgan; title: Postcommunist spectacle :; title: Germany, commodity, comedy  -- Jennifer Ruth Hosek; title: The anxiety of freedom :; title: contemporary Slovenian literature and the globalizing/postmodern world  -- Matevž Kos; title: Late communist and postcommunist avant-garde aesthetics :; title: interrogations of community  -- Nataša Kovačević; title: Global media and national value :; title: postsocialist negotiations  -- Anikó Imre; title: Love game :; title: East European athletes and the culture of global celebrity  -- Phyllis Whitman Hunter; title: Nomadic homes, postmodern travel, and the geopolitical imaginary in the post-totalitarian cultures of Poland and Ukraine -- Irene Sywenky.