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Urban Cultures in (post)colonial Central Europe
"Agata Anna Lisiak shows in her book Urban Cultures in (Post)colonial Central Europe how the postcolonial idea, developed recently to study Central and East European culture, can help us see the transformations of cities in the region. Lisiak argues that Berlin, Budapest Warsaw, and Prague are incubated cultures whose deepest forces were shadowy and ironic."-Marshall Berman, City University of New York.
Warsaw Tales
Warsaw Tales is an anthology of short stories and non-fiction set in the Polish capital. Beginning in 1911 with Boleslaw Prus' Apparitions, the collected stories provide a chronological account of the city's tumultuous and dramatic history. Each story captures a phase of Warsaw's past, through the interwar period as a Polish republic, the Second World War and the city's Nazi occupation, the post-war city in ruins and its rebuilding under the communist regime, and its new status as the capital of an independent Poland in 1989. With each story set in a specific part of the city, the collection becomes a guidebook to Warsaw's temporal, spatial, and psychological geography. This collection features a wide variety of authors including Boleslaw Prus, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Ludwik Hering, Zofia Petersowa, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Orlos, Hanna Krall, Antoni Libera, Zbigniew Mentzel, Olga Tokarczuk, and Krzysztof Varga.
Chłopcy z ulicy Pawła
W peszteńskiej części stolicy Węgier, u zbiegu ulic Pawła i Marii, znajduje się działka nazywana Placem. To idealne miejsce do zabawy: potrafi zastąpić amerykańską prerię, a skład drzewa na jego tyłach może być i lasem, i skalistymi górami, i twierdzą – wszystkim, co bawiącym się tu chłopcom podsunie wyobraźnia. Nic dziwnego, że Janosz Boka, pod wodzą którego zgrupowali się Czonakosz, Gereb, Czele, Weiss, Kende, Kolnai i Nemeczek, wydał rozkaz wzniesienia fortyfikacji mających uniemożliwić wrogie przejęcie Placu. A jest się czego obawiać: pewnego dnia Feri Acz, przywódca Czerwonych Koszul, zakrada się na Plac pod nieobecność chłopców i zabiera należący do ich grupy sztandar! To jasny sygnał, że Czerwone Koszule zechcą wkrótce odebrać Plac, ale chłopcy nie zamierzają oddać go bez walki. Czy Boka może liczyć na lojalność swoich żołnierzy? Dlaczego szeregowy Nemeczek, niesprawiedliwie traktowany przez swoich kompanów, udaje się do Botanika – miejsca zabaw Czerwonych Koszul? Który z chłopców zdradzi, a który okaże się bohaterem? Nowe tłumaczenie słynnych Chłopców z placu Broni, ze wstępem Krzysztofa Vargi.
Polish Literature in Transformation
This volume emerged from the conference "Polish Literature Since 1989" held at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. It shows how the profound political and economic transformation that has taken place in Poland since the end of communism in 1989 has affected literary culture and literary scholarship, such as: changing conceptions of Polish nationhood and identity * the impact of European integration (since 2004) * the effects of migration * revised conceptions of the foreign or the marginal, and new understandings of what is understood by emigre or emigrant literature * sensitivity to issues of gender and sexual identity, as well as the impact of feminism and queer studies * the huge impact of revived interest in the Jewish heritage, in Holocaust memory, and in Polish-Jewish relations. (Series: Polonistik im Kontext - Vol. 2)
Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
The “spatial”, the “bodily”, and the “memory turn” in the humanities and cultural studies are well-canonized developments. These features of our being in the world are fundamental in the medium of cinema, which is an art of spaces, bodies, and memories, increasingly so today when the analogue platform has been running parallel with the digitalized method of filmmaking. The three nodal concepts define the tripartite structure of this volume, composed of an overview study and twelve case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. The overarching questions of space representation and construction, bodies on screen, issues of national identification in a postcolonial framework, and cinema as a form of cultural memory are explored through the lens of specific national cinemas or contemporary Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, and Romanian films. In addition to investigating the cohesive forces that mark the postcommunist Eastern European region as a coherent cultural entity in its cinematic representations, the volume also stands as a witness to the importance of transnational approaches.
In Search of Singularity
In Search of Singularity introduces a new “compairative” methodology that seeks to understand how the interplay of paired texts creates meaning in new, transcultural contexts. Bringing the worlds of contemporary Polish and Chinese poetry since 1989 into conversation with one another, Joanna Krenz applies the concept of singularity to draw out resonances and intersections between these two discourses and shows how they have responded to intertwined historical and political trajectories and a new reality beyond the human. Drawing on developments such as AI poetry and ecopoetry, Krenz makes the case for a fresh approach to comparative poetry studies that takes into account new forms of poetic expression and probes into alternative grammars of understanding.
Węgry. W objęciach Dunaju
Co wspólnego ma średniowieczna mniszka z mostem na Dunaju? Dlaczego w Budapeszcie dzielnice noszą imiona konkretnych ludzi? Czemu Freddy Mercury śpiewał węgierską piosenkę ludową? Podobno Węgrzy wymyślili prawie wszystko, bez czego trudno żyć: długopis, Excela i kolorowy telewizor. Bez nich nie ułożylibyśmy kostki Rubika, nie zjedlibyśmy marcepanowej świnki i nie wypilibyśmy włoskiego espresso. Węgierska egzystencja opiera się na animuszu i namiętności. Nie trzeba szukać daleko, wystarczy spojrzeć na barwną i burzliwą historię kraju, którego mieszkańcy żyją w ciągłym rozdarciu pomiędzy tęsknotą za wielkim światem a miłością do prowincji i tradycji. ...
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Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage includes Albania, Belarus, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Moldova, Ukraine, and the countries that made up Yugoslavia.
