TY - BOOK AU - Labov,Jessie TI - Transatlantic Central Europe: contesting geography and redefining culture beyond the nation SN - 9786155053146 AV - PN5355 .T736 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Budapest, New York PB - Central European University Press KW - Periodicals KW - Social aspects KW - Communist countries KW - History KW - Europe, Central KW - 20th century KW - Mass media KW - Transnationalism KW - Social networks KW - Political culture KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction: Movements of texts across borders --; Part One. Cross Currents and its transatlantic Central European imaginary --; The political-cultural journal : the case of Cross Currents --; The debate over Central Europe from Jews to Yugoslavia --; Part Two. Further essays in contesting geography and redefining culture --; Borders, editors, and readers in motion --; Transmedial work-arounds after 1989 --; Conclusion: Redefining transatlantic Central Europe today; 2; b N2 - The concept of Central Europe has receded as a political and intellectual project, and the term has lost most of the weight it had in the 1980s and early 1990s. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of this group of countries all now involved in the process of Transatlantic integration used Central European as an alternative for the geo-political label of Eastern Europe. This book discusses the transnational set of practices connecting journals with other media in the mid-1980s that disseminated the idea of Central Europe simultaneously in East and West UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2143057&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -