§16§This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest cultures, new Russian fiction, Polish memory of Jewish heritage, ethnic nationalisms, revival of minority cultures, and loss of state support for museums. From a comparison of gender constructions in 30 national constitutions to an exploration of a cross-national artistic collaborative, this insightful book illuminates how the region's denizens are swimming in changing tides of transnational cultures, resulting in new hybridities and innovations. Arguing for a decolonization of the region and for the significance of culture, the book appeals to a wide, interdisciplinary readership intere §16§stedin cultural change, post-communist societies, and globalization.§§ §04§Chapter 1. Mosaics of Change.- Part 1: Europe and National Imaginations.- Chapter 2. A New Image of Ukraine: Oscillating between "Europeanness" and "Authenticity".- Chapter 3. Problematics of Multiculturalism in Polish Post-Enlargement National Identity: The Case of the Polish-Lithuanian Borderlands.- Chapter 4. "Slavs and Tatars" as an Example of a New Eurocentric Narrative.- Part 2: Religion and Memory.- Chapter 5. Jewish Memory in Poland's Memoryscapes: From Amnesia to "Lieux de Mémoire".- Chapter 6. Reviving the Legacy: Variant Trends of Islamic Resurgence in Kazakhstan.- Part 3: Consumption, Popular Culture, and Media.- Chapter 7. Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures: Migration of Texts and Problems of Transferability (the Polish Case).- Chapter 8. New Trends in Eating Practices in Poland: Bread, Meat and Water and the Taste of Globalization.- Chapter 9. Integration of Migrants in Modern Russia Legal and Media Discourses: (Re)Producing Racism?.- Part 4: Literary §04§Transformations.- Chapter 10. The Documentary Prose by Anita Liepa: The Project of Life Writing.- Chapter 11. Decolonizing Upper Silesia: Reclaiming and Validating the Hybridity of Silesian Culture in Contemporary Upper Silesian Literature of Poland.- Chapter 12. Developments in Russian literature: Examining the pre- and post- Soviet prose of Kazakh-Russian writer Anatoly Kim.- Part 5: Political and Activist Cultures.- Chapter 13. "Woman" in Cultural Reconstruction Since 1989.- Chapter 14. Queer Politics in Neoliberal Poland.- Chapter 15. Photo Essay: Future Heritage.§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
