Historical and Contemporary Challenges for Central and Eastern European Cities

Anna Seidel is assistant professor of West Slavic Literatures and Cultures at the University of Vienna..rsität Berlin

• IntroductionBy Elisa-Maria Hiemer and Anna SeidelPart I. Institutionalized Narratives on Urban SpacesChapter 1: Larisa Kangaspuro: Negotiating Space and Sovereignty in the Russian Empire: Finnish Katajanokka (Nokka) Prison in XIX CenturyChapter 2: Szilveszter Csernus-Lukács and Éva Lovra: From Maria-Theresiopel to Subotica – Gradual Reinvention of A (Habsburg) Hungarian Metropolis to a Yugoslav one From the Perspective of UrbanologyChapter 3: Tabita Redepenning: Szczecin’s ‘Lost’ City Center: Competition and Center Pluralization in Tourist MapsChapter 4: Anastasiia Bozhenko, Olesya Chagovets: Kharkiv as a Citadel on the Frontier: Reimagining the City during the Full-Scale Invasion of the Russian FederationPart II. (Re)Imagining Central Europe in Literature, Music, and FilmChapter 5: Natallia Prystupa: The Image of Czech and Slovak Cities in the Memories of Belarusian WritersChapter 6: Alina Bako: Bucharest Literary History: from Turkey’s Small Paris to Little ParisChapter 7: Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova Reinventing the Polish City of Walbrzych through Film.Chapter 8: Ruben Höppner: From the Invisible Ghetto to the Big Stage: Czech Gangsta Rap as a Narrative of Contested Urban SpacesPart III. Voicing the Margins: Practices of Claiming Urban SpaceChapter 9: Anna G. Piotrowska: The Role of Romani Musicians in Post-War Krakow, or, a Few Words about Krakow’s Unobvious Romani LegacyChapter 10: Aleksej Tikhonov: The So-Called “Russian Shop” in Berlin, Vienna, and Zürich: Diaspora-Identities in Urban Linguistic Landscapes between Commerce and GeopoliticsChapter 11: Katharina Tyran: South Slavic Semiotic and Linguistic Landscapes in Vienna: Contested Memories and Nationalistic Narratives in the Public SpaceChapter 12: Pavel Voinitski: Minsk’s Purity: A Negative (Re)Branding Case of the Last European Dictatorship’s CapitalConclusion - Anna SeidelNotes on the ContributorsIndex