Underground Modernity : : Urban Poetics in East-Central Europe, Pre- and Post-1989 /

Underground Modernity : : Urban Poetics in East-Central Europe, Pre- and Post-1989 / / Alfrun Kliems.

The literary scholar Alfrun Kliems explores the aesthetic strategies of Eastern European underground literature, art, film and music in the decades before and after the fall of communism, ranging from the ‘father’ of Prague Underground, Egon Bondy, to the neo-Dada Club of Polish Losers in Berlin. Th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2021
VerfasserIn:
Kliems, Alfrun,
MitwirkendeR:
Schneider, Jake,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Leipzig Studies on the History and Culture of East-Central Europe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Translation and Transliteration
  • Preface
  • Part I Typology
  • The Underground and the City, Pre- and Post-1989: An Effort to Interweave Concepts
  • Paranoid Schizophrenia: Dissent, the Underground, and Cultural Fissure
  • Subverting Official Claims to Centrality: Overcity/Undercity, City/Country, East/West
  • Verticality as Metaphor: The Romantic Era and the Underground as a Historical Location
  • Part II Figures, Works, Groups
  • Last Exit: Egon Bondy’s Anti-flâneurs under the Wheels of Madame Prague
  • Urban Disaffiliation: The Swan Songs of Ivan Martin Jirous
  • Disgusted in Bratislava: Vladimír Archleb’s Lyrically Vulgar Dandyism
  • Christ Quieted: Marcin Świetlicki, Kraków, the Underground, and Pop
  • The Joy of Failure, or Underground and Generation: Jacek Podsiadło’s Road Story en Route to Bratislava
  • My City’s Me, It’s Many: Peter “Firefly” Wawerzinek, the Palaverer of Prenzlauer Berg
  • Anticolonial Myth, Pop, Punk—and the End of the Underground? The Topol Brothers’ Psí vojáci Songs
  • Romani and Vietnamese in Prague: Jáchym Topol Bids Farewell to the Tripolis Praga
  • A Detour to Moscow: Vladimir Makanin’s Underground, or the Snare of the Subterranean
  • “Cherboslovats, Romongolians, Sweeks”: Yuri Andrukhovych’s Moscow as a “Junkspace” of Cultures
  • Planar Cities and Their Urban Devastation: Andrzej Stasiuk’s Post-Socialist Warsaw
  • Aggressive Localism: Stasiuk and Andrukhovych as Secretaries of the Provincial
  • Backstory “Metropolis, Mass, Meat Factory”: Tot Art and the Orange Alternative as Chefs of the “Semantic Porridge”
  • “It All Started in Gdańsk!”: Berlin’s Club of Polish Losers
  • Conclusion or, Entropy of the Underground
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Illustrations
  • Name Index

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