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Title Over the wall/after the fall [electronic resource] : post-communist cultures through an East-West gaze / edited by Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova.

Imprint Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

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Description xi, 320 p. : ill.
Bibliography 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 -- Bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema / Mark Andryczyk -- "Don't get pricked!" representation and the politics of sexuality in the Czech Republic / Vra Sokolova -- From big brother to big burger (and what's the grand narrative got to do with it?) / "Benni Goodman".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Social change -- Europe, Eastern.
Social change -- Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.
Europe, Eastern -- Civilization.
Former Soviet republics -- Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.)
Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
Gapova, Elena.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0253344328 (cloth : alk. paper)
0253216966 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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