Transatlantic Central Europe : contesting geography and redefining culture beyond the nation / Jessie Labov.

• Introduction: Movements of texts across borders -- Part One. Cross Currents and its Transatlantic Central European Imaginary: Chapter One. The political-cultural journal : the case of Cross Currents ; Chapter two. The debate over Central Europe: from Jews to Yugoslavia -- Part Two. Further Essays in Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture: Chapter three. Borders, editors, and readers in motion ; Chapter four. Transmedial work-arounds after 1989 -- Conclusion: Redefining transatlantic Central Europe today.

• "The proposed book takes one phenomenon, the reinvention of the idea of Central Europe in the mid-1980s, and demonstrates how its proponents developed a transnational set of practices connecting political-cultural journals with other media, disseminating this idea simultaneously in East and West. I use a range of new approaches and methodologies, including visualization of text corpora and mapping techniques, in order to reposition the political-cultural journal as one central node of a much larger cultural system. There is more at stake here than simply documenting the intellectual history of dissidents from this region in the late 1970s and 1980s, or the cultural politics that developed in their wake. By unearthing the legacy of Cold War-era border-crossing networks in the post-89 period, I show how the use of transnational, web-based media alongside of radio and print media follows the logic and practice of an earlier, 'dissident' generation of writers. Anyone who has followed the chain of electoral and economic challenges that the former satellite countries have faced over the last twenty years might ask what has happened to the liberal humanist philosophy that the term 'Central Europe' once evoked? This book follows its trajectories forward into the present day, reading both its material and intellectual traces in the post-socialist landscape"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Sociala nätverk  (sao)

Politisk kultur  (sao)

Internationella relationer  (sao)

Kommunism  (sao)

Periodicals  -- Social aspects -- Communist countries -- History. (LCSH)

Periodicals  -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Mass media  -- Social aspects -- Communist countries -- History. (LCSH)

Mass media  -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Transnationalism  -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social networks  -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Political culture  -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

International relations.  (fast)

Political culture.  (fast)

Social networks.  (fast)

Mass media  -- Social aspects. (fast)

Massmedia  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Transnationalisering  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Tidskrifter  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

International relations  (LCSH)

Social networks  (LCSH)

Political culture  (LCSH)

Centraleuropa  (sao)

Communist countries  -- Relations. (LCSH)

Europe, Central  -- Relations. (LCSH)

Communist countries.  (fast)

Central Europe.  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Titel

Cross currents.

Klassifikation

PN5355.C66 (LCC)

302.23/0943 (DDC)

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