Watersheds

Marijeta Bozovic is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, a specialist in Russian and Balkan literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the author of Nabokov’s Canon: From Onegin to Ada (forthcoming with Northwestern University Press, 2016). Her research interests include poetry, avant-gardes, diasporas and transnational culture, translation and adaptation across media.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionRiver FuturesMarijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller Chapter 1Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural ImaginaryKatherine Arens Chapter 2Taking the Waters: The Danube’s Reception in Austrian and Central/Eastern European Cinema HistoryRobert Dassanowsky Chapter 3Viennese Blood: Assimilation and Exclusion in Viennese Popular MusicMicaela Baranello Chapter 4Caught in the Effluvial Draft: The Fluid Sources of the FolktaleHenry Sussman Chapter 5New York on the Danube: The Transatlantic Transference of Habsburg Ethnology and Autocracy in Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing PersonRobert Lemon Chapter 6Private Looking and Collective Memory in The Danube Exodus (1998)Jennifer Stob Chapter 7Jelinek and the Roma: A Danubian TragedyKarl Ivan Solibakke Chapter 8Ravaged Empire: Water and Power in Prewar HungaryRobert Nemes Chapter 9Cold Days in the Cold War on the Hungarian-Serbian BorderJessie Labov Chapter 10Allergic Reactions: Danube and the Ex-centric Imaginary of EuropeTomislav Z. Longinović Chapter 11Against the Stream: The Danube, the Video, and the Nonbiodegradables of EuropeDragan Kujundžić Chapter 12Deconstructing Claims to (Jewish) VictimhoodAmanda Lerner Chapter 13Modernization’s Undercurrents: The Folk in Postwar Socialist Romanian ArchitectureJuliana MaximChapter 14Where the Water Sheds: Disputed Deposits at the Ends of the DanubeTanya Richardson BibliographyNotes on Watersheds and Its ContributorsIndex

“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