Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. List of illustrations xi
5. General Introduction 1
6. Figures of national poets
7. Introduction 11
8. Adam Mickiewicz as a Polish National Icon 19
9. Petofi: Self-Fashioning, Consecration, Dismantling 40
10. Mácha, the Czech National Poet 56
11. Mihai Eminescu: The Foundational Truth of a Dual Lyre 86
12. France Prešeren: A Conquest of the Slovene Parnassus 97
13. Petar II Petrovic Njegoš: The Icon of the Poet with the Icon 110
14. Hristo Botev and the Necessity of National Icons 117
15. Bialik, Poet of the People 128
16. Figurations of the family
17. Introduction 133
18. Family Trauma and Domestic Violence in Twentieth-Century Estonian Literature 140
19. In Search of the Mother’s Voice 154
20. Daughter Figures in Latvian Women’s Autobiographical Writing of the 1990s 167
21. Figuring the Motherland and Staging the Party Father in Bulgarian Literature 176
22. Gendering the Body of the Lithuanian Nation in Maironis’s Poetry 183
23. František Palacký, the Father Figure of Czech Historiography and Nation Building 193
24. Miloš Crnjanski’s Homecoming to a Migrating National Family 211
25. Figures of female identity
26. Introduction 221
27. Women at the Foundation of Romanian Literary Culture 229
28. Constructing a Woman Author within the Literary Canon 241
29. Gender and War in South Slavic Literatures 253
30. Women’s Memory and an Alternative Kosovo Myth 261
31. Women’s Corpuses, Corpses or (Cultural) Bodies 271
32. Berta Bojetu-Boeta’s Feminist Dystopias 281
33. Figures of the Other
34. Introduction 289
35. How Did the Golem Get to Prague? 296
36. How Did the Golems (and Robots) Enter Stage and Screen and Leave Prague? 308
37. Vámbéry, Stoker, and Dracula 321
38. Lasting Legacies 333
39. Czech Feminist Anti-Semitism 344
40. Figuring the Other in Nineteenth-Century Czech Literature 367
41. Killing with Metaphors 378
42. Love, Magic, and Life 391
43. The Alienated and Uprooted Tlushim 402
44. Figures of outlaws
45. The Rural Outlaws of East-Central Europe 407
46. Juraj Jánošík 441
47. Shifting Images of the Bulgarian Haiduti 457
48. Figures of trauma
49. Introduction 461
50. Remembrances of the Past and the Present 463
51. ‘Goli Otok’ Literature 478
52. Traumas of World War II 484
53. Performing Identity 504
54. Figures of mediation
55. Introduction 515
56. Joseph Eötvös 521
57. On the Ethnic Border 527
58. Two Regionalists of the Interwar Period 539
59. Journeys to the Other Half of the Continent 549
60. Epilogue
61. East-Central European Literature after 1989 561
62. Works cited 631
63. Index 695
64. List of Contributors to Volume 4 707
65. Errata for volumes 1-3 709