Eastern Europe Unmapped

Beyond Borders and Peripheries

Irene Kacandes, Yuliya Komska, Irene Kacandes, Yuliya Komska

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781789205305
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785336867
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

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

• Eastern Europe Unmapped
• Contents
• List of Maps and Figures
• Introduction — A Discontiguous Eastern Europe
• Part I — Re-placed Religion
• Chapter One — The "Jewish Pope" in the 1940s: On Jewish Cultural and Ethnic Plasticity
• Chapter Two — Unmapping Islam in Eastern Europe: Periodization and Muslim Subjectivities in the Balkans
• Part II — Dislodged Dissent
• Chapter Three — Located on the Archipelago: Toward a New Definition of Belarusian Intellectuals
• Chapter Four — Re-reading Kultura from a Distance
• Part III — Fictional Cartographies and Temporalities
• Chapter Five — Troubles with History: The Anecdote, History, and the Petty Hero in Central Europe
• Chapter Six — The Transnational Matrix of Post-Communist Spaces
• Part IV — Appropriated Afterlives
• Chapter Seven — Appropriations of the Past: The New Synagogue in Poznan and Olsztyn's Bet Tahara
• Chapter Eight — Bruno Schulz's Murals, Oyneg Shabes, and the Migration of Forms: Seventeen Fragments and an Archive
• Part V — Elective Affinities
• Chapter Nine — The Balkan Notebooks
• Chapter Ten — A Polish Childhood
• Afterword/Afterward: Eastern Europe, Unmapped and Reborn
• Index