The inhabited ruins of Central Europe : re-imagining space, history, and memory / edited by Dariusz Gafijczuk and Derek Sayer.

"The eleven essays in this volume explore the surprising resilience of productive instabilities enclosed in historical asymmetries, cultural paradoxes, and misplaced topographies. The recent history of Central Europe - a history that vividly blurs the line between imagination and reality - is a part...

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Other Authors: Gafijczuk, Dariusz
Sayer, Derek
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Europe, Central > History > 1989-
Europe, Central > Social life and customs.
Europe, Central > Intellectual life.
Europe, Central > Historical geography.
Historic sites > Europe, Central.
Memorials > Europe, Central.
Memory > Social aspects > Europe, Central.
Space and time > Social aspects > Europe, Central.
Group identity > Europe, Central.
Social change > Europe, Central.
ART / History / General.
HISTORY / Europe / General.
HISTORY / Modern / General.
HISTORY / Social History.
Physical Description:xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal) / Derek Sayer
  • Introduction: Delicate Empiricism / Dariusz Gafijczuk
  • 1. Ruins and Representations of 1989 : Exception, Normality, Revolution / Tim Beasley-Murray
  • 2. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? : Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe / Paul Blokker
  • 3. Democracy in Ruins : The case of the Hungarian Parliament / Endre Danyi
  • 4. Itinerant Memory Places : The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen / Kimberly Mair
  • 5. Edith Doesn't Live Here Anymore : A Story of Farnsworth House / Yoke-Sum Wong
  • 6. Comments on Comments : Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination / Jindrich Toman
  • 7. How We Remember and What We Forget : Art History and the Czech Avant-garde / Derek Sayer
  • 8. Anxious Geographies - Inhabited Traditions / Dariusz Gafijczuk
  • 9. Terezin as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue / Michael Beckerman
  • 10. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins : The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy's Afghanistan / Jonathan Bolton
  • 11. History's Loose Ends : Reflections on the Structure of Velvet Revolutions / Peter Zusi.