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This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central
Europe. It engages with a specific definition of 'sub-cultures'
over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways
in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding
identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories
imposed from the top down, such as 'ethnic group', 'majority' or
'minority'. Instead, a 'sub-culture' is an identity that sits
between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect
forms, cultural practices, ethnic and social identifications, or
religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology
that, similarly, sit outside national projects.
This book focuses on the developments in research,
national-historical narratives, and geographies of East Central
Europe. It explores the emergence of specific discursive practices,
architectures of ethnic identity, and the eventual juxtaposition
during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This volume addresses the question of 'identity' in East-Central
Europe. It engages with a specific definition of 'sub-cultures'
over the period from c. 1900 to the present and proposes novel ways
in which the term can be used with the purpose of understanding
identities that do not conform to the fixed, standard categories
imposed from the top down, such as 'ethnic group', 'majority' or
'minority'. Instead, a 'sub-culture' is an identity that sits
between these categories. It may blend languages, e.g. dialect
forms, cultural practices, ethnic and social identifications, or
religious affiliations as well as concepts of race and biology
that, similarly, sit outside national projects.
This book focuses on the Burgtheater, which was known as the 'first
German stage' in the nineteenth century but, by 1934, had clearly
assumed the mantle of a 'national theatre for Austria'.
In the 20th century, both Lviv and Wroclaw went through cataclysmic
changes. Assertively Polish pre-war Lwow became Soviet Lvov, and
then, after 1991, it became assertively Ukrainian Lviv. Breslau,
the third largest city in Germany before 1945, was in turn
'recovered' by communist Poland as Wroclaw. Practically the entire
population of Breslau was replaced, and Lwow's demography too was
dramatically restructured: many Polish inhabitants migrated to
Wroclaw and most Jews perished or went into exile. Migration
entailed new myths and the construction of official memory
projects. The chapters in this edited book compare the two cities
by focusing on lived experiences and 'bottom-up' historical
processes. Their sources and methods are those of micro-history and
include oral testimonies, memoirs, direct observation and
questionnaires, examples of popular culture and media pieces. The
essays explore many manifestations of the two sides of the same
coin, loss on the one hand, gain on the other, in two cities that
are complementary.
20 years after the fall of communism, scholarship on East-Central
Europe has adopted mainstream Western methodologies, but has
remained preoccupied with a narrow range of themes. This volume
addresses a conspectus of original themes, including the Galician
Alphabet War and Saxon eugenics in Transylvania.
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