Facing the East in the West : images of Eastern Europe in British literature, film and culture

Author(s)

• Korte, Barbara
• Pirker, Eva Ulrike
• Helff, Sissy

Bibliographic Information

Facing the East in the West : images of Eastern Europe in British literature, film and culture

edited by Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker and Sissy Helff

（Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 138）

Rodopi, 2010

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Over the last decade, migration flows from Central and Eastern Europe have become an issue in political debates about human rights, social integration, multiculturalism and citizenship in Great Britain. The increasing number of Eastern Europeans living in Britain has provoked ambivalent and diverse responses, including representations in film and literature that range from travel writing, humorous fiction, mockumentaries, musicals, drama and children's literature to the thriller. The present volume discusses a wide range of representations of Eastern and Central Europe and its people as reflected in British literature, film and culture. The book offers new readings of authors who have influenced the cultural imagination since the nineteenth century, such as Bram Stoker, George Bernard Shaw, Joseph Conrad and Arthur Koestler. It also discusses the work of more contemporary writers and film directors including Sacha Baron Cohen, David Cronenberg, Vesna Goldsworthy, Kapka Kassabova, Marina Lewycka, Ken Loach, Mike Phillips, Joanne K. Rowling and Rose Tremain. With its focus on post-Wall Europe, Facing the East in the West goes beyond discussions of migration to Britain from an established postcolonial perspective and contributes to the current exploration of 'new' European identities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Barbara Korte: Facing the East of Europe in Its Western Isles: Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives East and West: Mirrorings Elisabeth Cheaure: Infinite Mirrorings: Russia and Eastern Europe as the West's "Other" Mike Phillips: Narratives of Desire - A Writer's Statement Christiane Bimberg: 'A glimpse behind the scenes', 'trying to capture the very soul of things Russian': Literary Representations of Intercultural East-West Encounters in Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes Kapka Kassabova: From Bulgaria with Love and Hate: The Anxiety of the Distorting Mirror (A Writer's Perspective) Two Poems Kapka Kassabova: Our Names Long and Foreign Kapka Kassabova: The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth Journeys, Encounters, Cultural Translations Elmar Schenkel: To Russia with Love: Maurice Baring (1874-1945) Dirk Wiemann: A Russian Romance: 1930s British Writers as Wishful Participants in the Soviet Revolution Sissy Helff: From Euphoria to Disillusionment: Representations of Communism and the Soviet Union in Arthur Koestler's The Invisible Writing Eva Ulrike Pirker: The Unfinished Revolution: Black Perceptions of Eastern Europe Cinzia Mozzato: Looking Eastwards: Borders and Border-Crossing in the Work of Ken Smith A Play in One Act Mike Phillips: You Think You Know Me But You Don't Stereotypes: Staying Power and Subversion Vedrana Velickovic: Balkanisms Old and New: The Discourse of Balkanism and Self-Othering in Vesna Goldsworthy's Chernobyl Strawberries and Inventing Ruritania Michael McAteer: A Troubled Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century Irish Protestant Literature Jonas Takors: 'The Russians could no longer be the heavies': From Russia with Love and the Cold War in the Bond Series Wolfgang Hochbruck, Elmo Feiten and Anja Tiedemann: 'Vulchanov! Volkov! Aaaaaaand Krum!': Joanne K. Rowling's "Eastern" Europe Nadia Butt: Between Dream and Nightmare: Representation of Eastern Diaspora in Eastern Promises Susanne Schmid: Taking Embarrassment to Its Extremes: Borat and Cultural Anxiety Martin Hermann: Immigrants, Stereotypes and the New Ireland: Czech Identity in and in Response to the Film Once Christian Schmitt-Kilb: Gypsies and Their Representation: Louise Doughty's Stone Cradle and David Mitchell's Black Swan Green Polish Identities in Perspective: Accession - Integration - Perception Joanna Rostek and Dirk Uffelmann: Can the Polish Migrant Speak? The Representation of "Subaltern" Polish Migrants in Film, Literature and Music from Britain and Poland Przemyslaw Wilk: Images of Poles and Poland in The Guardian, 2003-2005 Marie-Luise Egbert: "Old Poles" and "New Blacks": The Polish Immigrant Experience in Britain (Re-)Visiting Eastern Spaces in Contemporary British Fiction Corina Crisu: British Geographies in the Eastern European Mind: Rose Tremain's The Road Home Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: West Faces East: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent Short Fiction Michael Szczekalla: 'Under Western Eyes': Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the Fiction of Martin Amis, Nicholas Shakespeare and Carl Tighe Ingrida Zindziuviene: Images of Lithuania in Stephan Collishaw's Novels Claudia Duppe: Tourist in Her Native Country: Kapka Kassabova's Street Without a Name Doris Lechner: Eastern European Memories? The Novels of Marina Lewycka Doris Lechner: Interview with Marina Lewycka Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BB04852080
• ISBN:
  • 9789042030497
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 480 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR149.E88
  • DC22 : 820.9353
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Europe, Eastern -- In literature
  • LCSH : Emigration and immigration in literature
  • LCSH : Motion pictures -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Europe, Eastern -- In motion pictures
  • LCSH : Emigration and immigration in motion pictures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA24695057