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The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe

Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory

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Editors:
  1. Dariusz Gafijczuk

    1. University College London, UK

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  2. Derek Sayer

    1. Lancaster University, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Prologue: The Day the Wall Came Down (American Surreal)

    • Derek Sayer
    Pages 1-8

  3. Introduction: Delicate Empiricism

    • Dariusz Gafijczuk
    Pages 9-15

  4. Ruins and Representations of 1989: Exception, Normality, Revolution

    • Tim Beasley-Murray
    Pages 16-39

  5. The Ruins of a Myth or a Myth in Ruins? Freedom and Cohabitation in Central Europe

    • Paul Blokker
    Pages 40-54

  6. Democracy in Ruins: The Case of the Hungarian Parliament

    • Endre Dányi
    Pages 55-78

  7. Itinerant Memory Places: The Baader-Meinhof-Wagen

    • Kimberly Mair
    Pages 79-101

  8. Edith Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: A Story of Farnsworth House

    • Yoke-Sum Wong
    Pages 102-133

  9. Fake Fragments, Fake Ruins, and Genuine Paper Ruination

    • JindÅ™ich Toman
    Pages 134-147

  10. How We Remember and What We Forget: Art History and the Czech Avant-garde

    • Derek Sayer
    Pages 148-177

  11. Anxious Geographies — Inhabited Traditions

    • Dariusz Gafijczuk
    Pages 178-193

  12. Terezín as Reverse Potemkin Ruin, in Five Movements and an Epilogue

    • Michael Beckerman
    Pages 194-204

  13. Desert Europa and the Sea of Ruins: The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination in Egon Bondy’s Afghanistan

    • Jonathan Bolton
    Pages 205-226

  14. History’s Loose Ends: Imagining the Velvet Revolution

    • Peter Zusi
    Pages 227-245

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 247-252
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About this book

Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    Dariusz Gafijczuk

  • Lancaster University, UK

    Derek Sayer

About the editors

Tim Beasley-Murray, University College London, UK Michael Beckerman, New York University, USA Paul Blokker, University of Trento, Italy Jonathan Bolton, Harvard University, USA Endre Dányi, Goethe University, Germany Kimberly Mair, University of Lethbridge, Canada Jind?ich Toman, University of Michigan, USA Yoke-Sum Wong, Lancaster University, USA Peter Zusi, University College London, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory

  • Editors: Dariusz Gafijczuk, Derek Sayer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137305862

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30585-5Published: 27 September 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45494-5Published: 01 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30586-2Published: 27 September 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 252

  • Topics: Arts, European History, Literature, general, Social History, Cultural History, Modern History

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