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Underground modernity : urban poetics in East-Central Europe, pre- and post-1989 / Alfrun Kliems ; translated by Jake Schneider.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Kliems, Alfrun, 1969- author.
Contributor:
Schneider, Jake, translator.
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Series:
Leipzig studies on the history and culture of East-Central Europe ; v. 6.
Leipzig studies on the history and culture of East Central Europe, 2416-1160 ; volume 6
Standardized Title:
Underground, die Wende und die Stadt. English
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Underground literature--Europe, Eastern--History and criticism.
Underground literature.
Literature, Experimental--Europe, Eastern--History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental.
Counterculture--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
Counterculture.
Performing arts and literature--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
Performing arts and literature.
Performing arts and literature--Europe, Eastern--History--21st century.
Cities and towns in literature.
Urbanization in literature.
History.
Eastern Europe.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Part I. Typology
The Underground and the City, Pre- and Post-1989: An Effort to Interweave Concepts
Paranoid Schizophrenia: Dissent, the Underground, and Cultural Fissure
Subverting Official Claims to Centrality: Overcity/Undercity, City/Country, East/West
Verticality as Metaphor: The Romantic Era and the Underground as a Historical Location
Part II. Figures, Works, Groups
Last Exit: Egon Bondy's Anti-flâneurs under the Wheels of Madame Prague
Urban Disaffiliation: The Swan Songs of Ivan Martin Jirous
Disgusted in Bratislava: Vladimír Archleb's Lyrically Vulgar Dandyism
Christ Quieted: Marcin Świetlicki, Kraków, the Underground, and Pop
The Joy of Failure, or Underground and Generation: Jacek Podsiadło's Road Story en Route to Bratislava
My City's Me, It's Many: Peter 'Firefly' Wawerzinek, the Palaverer of Prenzlauer Berg
Anticolonial Myth, Pop, Punk
and the End of the Underground? The Topol Brothers' Psí vojáci Songs
Romani and Vietnamese in Prague: Jáchym Topol Bids Farewell to the Tripolis Praga
A Detour to Moscow: Vladimir Makanin's Underground Fantasies, or the Snare of the Subterranean
'Cherboslovats, Romongolians, Sweeks': Yuri Andrukhovych's Moscow as a 'Junkspace' of Cultures
Planar Cities and Their Urban Devastation: Andrzej Stasiuk's Post-Socialist Warsaw
Aggressive Localism: Andrzej Stasiuk and Yuri Andrukhovych as Secretaries of the Provincial
Backstory 'Metropolis, Mass, Meat Factory': Tot Art, the Orange Alternative, and Other Chefs of the 'Semantic Porridge'
'It All Started in Gdańsk!': Berlin's Club of Polish Losers
Conclusion or, Entropy of the Underground.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2021).
Other Format:
Print version: Kliems, Alfrun, 1969- Underground modernity
ISBN:
9789633863985
9633863988
Publisher Number:
40030476301
Access Restriction:
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