by Irene Kacandes (Editor), Yuliya Komska (Editor)
Arguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant lands, populations, and intellectual traditions. Through a series of inventive cultural and historical explorations, Eastern Europe Unmapped dispenses with scholars' long-time preoccupation with national and regional borders, instead raising provocative questions about the area's non-contiguous--and frequently global or extraterritorial--entanglements.
Author Biography
Irene Kacandes holds The Dartmouth Professorship in German Studies and Comparative Literature. She edits the "Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies" series for de Gruyter Verlag and was President of the German Studies Association from 2015 to 2016.