Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. Contributors viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction. Contested Cultural Identities in Public Discourse xii
6. Part I
7. 1. Expellees, Counterfactualism and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-National Debates in German-Polish Relations 1
8. 2. The Role of Metaphor in Shaping Cultural Stereotypes: A Case Study of French Public Discourse on European Union Enlargement 16
9. 3. Metaphors in German and Lithuanian Discourse Concerning the Expansion of the European Union 33
10. Part II
11. 4. Domestic and Foreign Media Images of the Balkans 51
12. 5. Naming Strategies and Neighboring Nations in the Croatian Media 73
13. 6. Mujahiddin in Our Midst: Bosnian Croats after the Wars of Succession 90
14. 7. Construction of Serbian and Montenegrin Identities through Layout and Photographs of Leading Politicians in Official Newspapers 107
15. 8. Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia’s European Union Integration 125
16. 9. The Linguistic Image of the Balkans in the Polish Press in Discourse on European Union Expansion 143
17. 10. The Eternal Outsider? Scenarios of Turkey’s Ambitions to Join the European Union in the German Press 157
18. Part III
19. 11. Contested Identities: Miroslav Krleža’s Two Europes versus the Notion of Europe’s Edge 173
20. 12. Masculinity and the New Sensibility: Reading a Contemporary Montenegrin Novel 188
21. 13. The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland 203
22. Conclusion. Discursive Negotiations of Cultural Identity and Europe’s Eastern Rim 218