Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and Peripheries

✍ Scribed by Irene Kacandes (editor); Yuliya Komska (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction: A Discontiguous Eastern Europe
Part I. Re-placed Religion
Introduction
1. The “Jewish Pope” in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity
2. Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans
Part II. Dislodged Dissent
Introduction
3. Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Defi nition of Belarusian Intellectuals
4. Re-reading Kultura from a Distance
Part III. Fictional Cartographies and Temporalities
Introduction
5. Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe
6. The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces
Part IV. Appropriated Afterlives
Introduction
7. Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznań and Olsztyn’s Bet Tahara
8. Bruno Schulz’s Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive
Part V. Elective Affinities
Introduction
9. The Balkan Notebooks
10. A Polish Childhood
Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn
Index