[Discussion] PUBL.: _Over the Wall/After the Fall: : Post-Communist Cultures through an East-West Gaze_

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

          Sibelan Forrester, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and Elena Gapova,
          eds. 2004. Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist
          Cultures through an East-West Gaze. Bloomington: Indiana
          University Press.

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/Over 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 insights from cultural studies, gender
theory, and postcolonial studies, this lively collection addresses
gender issues and sexual politics, consumerism, high and popular
culture, architecture, media, art, and theater. Among the themes of the
essays are the Western pop success of Bulgarian folk choirs, the Czechs'
reception of Frank Gehry's unconventional building in the center of
Prague, bohemians in Lviv, and cryptographic art installations from
Bratislava.

Contributors are Mark Andryczyk, Andaluna Borcila, Halina Filipowicz,
Sibelan Forrester, Elena Gapova, Rainer Gries, David Houston, Bill
Johnston, Paul Krainak, Willard Pate, Anca Rosu, Carol Silverman, Vera
Sokolov=87, Wisllawa Szymborska, Joanna Trzeciak, Lisa Whitmore, and
Magdalena J. Zaborowska.

". . . 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 Grossman

Sibelan Forrester* *is Associate Professor of Russian at Swarthmore
College.

Elena Gapova is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for
Gender Studies at European Humanities University in Minsk.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska is Associate Professor in the Program in
American Culture and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at
the University of Michigan.


*Table of Contents
*Preface
Magdaelana J. Zaborowska, Sibelan Forrester, and Elena Gapova,
"Introduction: Mapping Postsocialist Cultural Studies"

PART I. (RE-)VISITATIONS
Andaluna Borcila, "How I Found Eastern Europe: Televisual Geography,
Travel Sites, and Museum Installations"

Elena Gapova, "The Nation In Between; or, Why Intellectuals Do Things
with Words"

Lisa Whitmore, "Prenzlauer Berg Connections: The Trajectory of East
German Samizdat Culture from Socialism to Capitalism"

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Reading Transparent 'Constructions of
History'; or, Three Passages through (In)Visible Warsaw"

David Houston, "Can Prague Learn fro L.A.? Frank Gehry's Netherlands
National Building in Prague"

Bill Johnston, "Heteroglossia and Linguistic Neocolonialism: English
Teaching in Post-1989 Poland"

Anca Rosu, "Projections of Desire: Robert D. Kaplan's /Balkan Ghosts/
and the Crisis of Self-Definition"

PART II. (RE-)ADAPTATIONS
Halina Filipowicz, "Shifting a Cultural Paradigm: Between the Mystique
and the Marketing of Polish Theatre"

Rainer Gries, "'Hurrah, I'm Still Alive!' East German Products
Demonstrating East German Identities"

Paul Krainak, "Cryptographic Art of Bratislava: Configurations of
Absence in Post-Communist Installation Art"

Carol Silverman, "'Move Over Madonna': Gender, Representation, and the
'Mystery' of Bulgarian Voices"

Mark Andryczyk, "Four Bearings of West for the Lviv Bohema"

Vera Sokolov=87, "'Don't Get Pricked!' Representation and the Politics of
Sexuality in the Czech Republic"

"Benni Goodman," "Afterword: From Big Brother to Big Burger (And What's
the Grand Narrative Got to Do with It?)"

Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index

216 pages, 12 b&w illus., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Cloth, 0-253-34432-8
Paper, 0-253-21696-6