Transatlantic Central Europe

Contesting Geography and Redifining Culture Beyond the Nation
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-615-5053-29-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

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 geo-political label of Eastern Europe. This book discusses the transnational set of practices connecting journals with other media in the mid-1980s, disseminating the idea of Central Europe simultaneously in East and West. A range of new methodologies, including GIS-mapping visualization, is used, repositing the political-cultural journal as one central node of a much larger cultural system. What has happened to the liberal humanist philosophy that Central Europe once evoked? In the early years of the transition era, the liberal humanist perspective shared by Havel, Konrád, Kundera, and Michnik was quickly replaced by an economic liberalism that evolved into neoliberal policies and practices. The author follows the trajectories of the concept into the present day, reading its material and intellectual traces in the postcommunist landscape. She explores how the current use of transnational, web-based media follows the logic and practice of an earlier, 'dissident' generation of writers.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Labov, Jessie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Jessie Labov is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Media, Data, and Society at Central European University, Budapest.