The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 / / Harold B. Segel.

Covering Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, Harold B. Segel, a longtime scholar of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature, writes a clear, concise, and ba...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. World War II in the Literatures of Eastern Europe
  • 2. Postwar Colonialism, Communist Style
  • 3. In the Aftermath of the Great Dictator's Death
  • 4. Fleeing the System: Literature and Emigration
  • 5. Internal Exile and the Literature of Escape
  • 6. Writers Behind Bars: Eastern European Prison Literature, 1945-1990
  • 7. The Reform Imperative in Eastern Europe: From Solidarity to Postmodernism
  • 8. Eastern European Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s
  • 9. The House of Cards Collapses: The Literary Fallout of the Yugoslav Crises of the 1990s
  • 10. Glimpses of the Other World: America Through Eastern European Eyes
  • 11. The Postcolonial Literary Scene in Eastern Europe Since 1991
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Index