Yuliya Komska
Biographic Data
| ID | 974691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuliya Komska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuliya |
| FAMILY NAME | Komska |
| SIGNATURE | KOMSKA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A More Immanent Critique; or, Inside the House That Alexander Mitscherlich Built
Frequently, to be an immigrant is to be submerged in one's new physical and institutional settings, to be inside without feeling like an insider. The position is at odds with critique, which is traditionally predicated on distance. This article attempts to undo the contradiction between the two circumstances. From inside a unit that the preeminent postwar psychoanalyst and critic Alexander Mitscherlich helped plan for the developer Neue Heimat St…
David W. Gerlach. The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing
“In retrospect,” Tony Judt wrote in the introduction to his Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, “the years 1945–1989 . . . now come to be seen not as a new epoch but rather as an interim age: a post-war parenthesis, the unfinished business of a conflict that ended in 1945 but whose epilogue had lasted for another half century.” It is in part thanks to Judt that “aftermath” has become a proper category of historical analysis, lending further …
RFE/RL Broadcasting and West German Society
This article contributes to the historiography of two separate topics that became intertwined in the final decade of the Cold War: wildlife protection activism and Cold War broadcasting. The article explains how the activities of Radio Free Europe (RFE), a U.S.-funded radio station based in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that transmitted shortwave broadcasts to five Soviet-bloc countries, throw into sharp relief the fine line between the a…
Trade Publisher Archives
In recent years, monolingualism has become an object of renewed scholarly scrutiny. Divergent as they may be, accounts of its entrenchment typically concur that trade publishers, especially their Anglophone variety, have acted as catalysts in the process. This article questions the assumption by zooming in on the case of an established Boston-based house, Houghton Mifflin, during World War II, i.e. the time when paper rationing and apprehensions …
West Germany's Cold War Radio
Mr. Radio (der Radio) is man's greatest achievement," a young Bavariannamed Maxl announced in the op-ed column of Der Rundfunkhörer, a journalof the state's listener advocacy association, in April 1954.1 His initialenthusiasm, the letter made obvious, fizzled out fast. Elsewhere, Mr. Radiomay well have been a paragon of mobile greatness, road-ready thanks tocars and portable following the introduction of transistors in 1953.2 Yet, hiscountry's Mr…
Ruins of the Cold War
I am thankful to Leslie A. Adelson, David Bathrick, Gerd Gemünden, Isabel Hull, Irene Kacandes, Anette Schwarz, and participants in the 2008 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst summer seminar at Cornell University for responding to various versions of this article. Sven-Erik Rose's generous and insightful editorial comments have been invaluable, as have been structural suggestions of the anonymous reviewer
Heimat without Qualities
Heimat is commonly theorized as an entity both co-extensive with the nation and easily describable in terms of its regional peculiarities (Eigenart). To challenge this view, this article turns to sociolinguistic discussions in the press of Sudeten German expellees in the early 1950s. Rather than speaking as experts on local dialects or folklore, these newcomers resorted to Sprachkritik, a widespread postwar public form of sociolinguistic criticis…
Border Looking
After their expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1945–6, the Sudeten Germans continued to revisit the (West) German‐Czech(oslovak) border, a dividing line now about to undergo institutional dissolution within the expanded European Union. Until 1987, their different groups contributed to building what became a chain of pilgrimage sites located along the Iron Curtain and visited well into the present. Closely related to the so‐called ‘Blick in die Heim…
West Germany's Cold War Radio
Mr. Radio (der Radio) is man's greatest achievement," a young Bavariannamed Maxl announced in the op-ed column of Der Rundfunkhörer, a journalof the state's listener advocacy association, in April 1954.1 His initialenthusiasm, the letter made obvious, fizzled out fast. Elsewhere, Mr. Radiomay well have been a paragon of mobile greatness, road-ready thanks tocars and portable following the introduction of transistors in 1953.2 Yet, hiscountry's Mr…
Border Looking
After their expulsion from Czechoslovakia in 1945–6, the Sudeten Germans continued to revisit the (West) German‐Czech(oslovak) border, a dividing line now about to undergo institutional dissolution within the expanded European Union. Until 1987, their different groups contributed to building what became a chain of pilgrimage sites located along the Iron Curtain and visited well into the present. Closely related to the so‐called ‘Blick in die Heim…
Ruins of the Cold War
I am thankful to Leslie A. Adelson, David Bathrick, Gerd Gemünden, Isabel Hull, Irene Kacandes, Anette Schwarz, and participants in the 2008 Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst summer seminar at Cornell University for responding to various versions of this article. Sven-Erik Rose's generous and insightful editorial comments have been invaluable, as have been structural suggestions of the anonymous reviewer
Heimat without Qualities
Heimat is commonly theorized as an entity both co-extensive with the nation and easily describable in terms of its regional peculiarities (Eigenart). To challenge this view, this article turns to sociolinguistic discussions in the press of Sudeten German expellees in the early 1950s. Rather than speaking as experts on local dialects or folklore, these newcomers resorted to Sprachkritik, a widespread postwar public form of sociolinguistic criticis…
West Germany's Cold War Radio
Mr. Radio (der Radio) is man's greatest achievement," a young Bavariannamed Maxl announced in the op-ed column of Der Rundfunkhörer, a journalof the state's listener advocacy association, in April 1954.1 His initialenthusiasm, the letter made obvious, fizzled out fast. Elsewhere, Mr. Radiomay well have been a paragon of mobile greatness, road-ready thanks tocars and portable following the introduction of transistors in 1953.2 Yet, hiscountry's Mr…
Trade Publisher Archives
In recent years, monolingualism has become an object of renewed scholarly scrutiny. Divergent as they may be, accounts of its entrenchment typically concur that trade publishers, especially their Anglophone variety, have acted as catalysts in the process. This article questions the assumption by zooming in on the case of an established Boston-based house, Houghton Mifflin, during World War II, i.e. the time when paper rationing and apprehensions …
RFE/RL Broadcasting and West German Society
This article contributes to the historiography of two separate topics that became intertwined in the final decade of the Cold War: wildlife protection activism and Cold War broadcasting. The article explains how the activities of Radio Free Europe (RFE), a U.S.-funded radio station based in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) that transmitted shortwave broadcasts to five Soviet-bloc countries, throw into sharp relief the fine line between the a…
David W. Gerlach. The Economy of Ethnic Cleansing
“In retrospect,” Tony Judt wrote in the introduction to his Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, “the years 1945–1989 . . . now come to be seen not as a new epoch but rather as an interim age: a post-war parenthesis, the unfinished business of a conflict that ended in 1945 but whose epilogue had lasted for another half century.” It is in part thanks to Judt that “aftermath” has become a proper category of historical analysis, lending further …
A More Immanent Critique; or, Inside the House That Alexander Mitscherlich Built
Frequently, to be an immigrant is to be submerged in one's new physical and institutional settings, to be inside without feeling like an insider. The position is at odds with critique, which is traditionally predicated on distance. This article attempts to undo the contradiction between the two circumstances. From inside a unit that the preeminent postwar psychoanalyst and critic Alexander Mitscherlich helped plan for the developer Neue Heimat St…
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