Moving Forward

Since the end of the Cold War and the reconfiguration of the map of Europe, scholars across the disciplines have looked anew at the geopolitical and geocultural dimensions of East Central Europe. Although geographically at the periphery of Eastern Europe, Germany and its changing discourses on the East have also become a subject of this reassessment in recent years. Within this larger context, this special issue explores the fraught history of German-Polish border regions with a special focus on contemporary literature and film.1 The contributions examine the representation of border regions in recent Polish and German literature (Irene Sywenky, Claudia Winkler), filmic accounts of historical German and Polish legacies within contemporary European contexts (Randall Halle, Meghan O’Dea), and the role of collective memory in contemporary German-Polish relations (Karl Cordell). Bringing together scholars of Polish and German literature and film, as well as political science, some of the contributions also ponder the advantages of regional and transnational approaches to issues that used to be discussed primarily within national parameters

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  Open Access•J J Bock•Sociology•2018

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