The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945

Harold B. Segel

May, 2008
Cloth, 424 pages, None
ISBN: 978-0-231-13306-7
$75.00 / £52.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. World War II in the Literatures of Eastern Europe

2. Postwar Colonialism, by Communist Style

3. In the Aftermath of the Great Dictator’s Death

4. Fleeing the System: Literature and Emigration

5. Internal Exile and the Literature of Escape

6. Writers Behind Bars: Eastern European Prison Literature, by 1945–1990

7. The Reform Imperative in Eastern Europe: From Solidarity to Postmodernism

8. Eastern European Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s

9. The House of Cards Collapses: The Literary Fallout of the Yugoslav Crises of the 1990s

10. Glimpses of the Other World: America Through Eastern European Eyes

11. The Postcolonial Literary Scene in Eastern Europe Since 1991

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature
• European History
• Reference

About the Author

Harold B. Segel is professor emeritus of Slavic literatures and of comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of fourteen books, including The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe Since 1945; Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative; Pinocchio's Progeny: Puppets, Marionettes, Robots, and Automatons in Modernist and Avant-Garde Drama; and Turn-of-the-Century Cabaret: Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Cracow, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Zurich.Harold B. Segel is the author of a dozen books, including The Columbia Guide to the Literatures of Eastern Europe (CUP, 2003), Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470 – 1543 (Cornell UP, 1989) and Body Ascendant: Modernism and the Physical Imperative (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998). He is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Literature at Columbia University.

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