CHAPTER 1. Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural Imaginary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction xiii
6. CHAPTER 1. Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural Imaginary 1
7. CHAPTER 2. Taking the Waters: The Danube’s Reception in Austrian and Central/Eastern European Cinema History 25
8. CHAPTER 3. Viennese Blood: Assimilation and Exclusion in Viennese Popular Music 53
9. CHAPTER 4. Caught in the Effluvial Draft: The Fluid Sources of the Folktale 70
10. CHAPTER 5. New York on the Danube: The Transatlantic Transference of Habsburg Ethnology and Autocracy in Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person 99
11. CHAPTER 6. Private Looking and Collective Memory in The Danube Exodus (1998) 120
12. CHAPTER 7. Jelinek and the Roma: A Danubian Tragedy 144
13. CHAPTER 8. Ravaged Empire: Water and Power in Prewar Hungary 160
14. CHAPTER 9. Cold Days in the Cold War on the Hungarian-Serbian Border 183
15. CHAPTER 10. Allergic Reactions: Danube and the Ex-centric Imaginary of Europe 212
16. CHAPTER 11. Against the Stream: The Danube, the Video, and the Nonbiodegradables of Europe 227
17. CHAPTER 12. Deconstructing Claims to (Jewish) Victimhood 258
18. CHAPTER 13. Modernization’s Undercurrents: The Folk in Postwar Socialist Romanian Architecture 277
19. CHAPTER 14. Where the Water Sheds: Disputed Deposits at the Ends of the Danube 307
20. Bibliography 337
21. Notes on Watersheds and Its Contributors 363
22. Index 369