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Watersheds

Watersheds

Poetics and Politics of the Danube River

Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History

Edited by Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller

Contributions by Katherine Arens, Micaela Baranello, Marijeta Bozovic, Robert Dassanowsky, Dragan Kujundžić, Jessie Labov, Robert Lemon, Amanda Lerner, Tomislav Longinović, Juliana Maxim, Matthew D. Miller, Robert Nemes, Tanya Richardson, Karl Solibakke, Jennifer Stob and Henry Sussman

Published by: Academic Studies Press

Imprint: Academic Studies Press

Language: English

414 Pages

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9781618114877

Published: April 2016

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From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe’s second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide Europe from non-Europe, and facilitating the flow of economic and cultural forms of international exchange. Yet the river has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention, and what exists too often privileges single disciplinary or national perspectives. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to the river and its cultural imaginaries, the anthology Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River remedies this neglect and explores the river as a site of transcultural engagement in the New Europe.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

River Futures

Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller

Chapter 1

Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural Imaginary

Katherine Arens

Chapter 2

Taking the Waters: The Danube’s Reception in Austrian and Central/Eastern European Cinema History

Robert Dassanowsky

Chapter 3

Viennese Blood: Assimilation and Exclusion in Viennese Popular Music

Micaela Baranello

Chapter 4

Caught in the Effluvial Draft: The Fluid Sources of the Folktale

Henry Sussman

Chapter 5

New York on the Danube: The Transatlantic Transference of Habsburg Ethnology and Autocracy in Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person

Robert Lemon

Chapter 6

Private Looking and Collective Memory in The Danube Exodus (1998)

Jennifer Stob

Chapter 7

Jelinek and the Roma: A Danubian Tragedy

Karl Ivan Solibakke

Chapter 8

Ravaged Empire: Water and Power in Prewar Hungary

Robert Nemes

Chapter 9

Cold Days in the Cold War on the Hungarian-Serbian Border

Jessie Labov

Chapter 10

Allergic Reactions: Danube and the Ex-centric Imaginary of Europe

Tomislav Z. Longinović

Chapter 11

Against the Stream: The Danube, the Video, and the Nonbiodegradables of Europe

Dragan Kujundžić

Chapter 12

Deconstructing Claims to (Jewish) Victimhood

Amanda Lerner

Chapter 13

Modernization’s Undercurrents: The Folk in Postwar Socialist Romanian Architecture

Juliana Maxim

Chapter 14

Where the Water Sheds: Disputed Deposits at the Ends of the Danube

Tanya Richardson

Bibliography

Notes on Watersheds and Its Contributors

Index

Matthew D. Miller is Assistant Professor of German at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, theater, film, and critical and aesthetic theory. His book project Mauer, Migration, Maps: The German Epic in the Cold War focuses on works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge.

“If one considers the book as an entangled narrative fabric …, it transforms into the forum set forth by the editors: to meet and to merge, to enter into a critical dialogue, and to combine many perspectives and disciplines into one book. As a whole, Watersheds goes beyond national perspectives and disciplines. It is more unifying than separating, more inclusive than exclusive. This book not only gives a more transnational direction to this interdisciplinary field of study, but it also opens new ways of looking at a range of authors and works that are not included. … After the Soviet Union dissolved and the central European states were incorporated into the European Union, the tension between inclusion and exclusion perhaps seemed to be resolved for a brief moment; East and West seemed to be closer to each other. But after multiple terrorist attacks, the refugee crisis, the Brexit vote, and recent elections, the notion of Danubia possesses an even stronger resonance, which suggests a tolerance of difference in a time when it appears that many new borders are dividing Europe. This emerging atmosphere of exclusion makes Watersheds an important contribution to scholarship of the Danube; it is a valuable book for everyone who can image a world without borders to read.” —Christiane Fischer, Rutgers University, German Studies Review Vol. 41 No. 3
~Christiane Fischer