Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. 1. World War II in the Literatures of Eastern Europe 1
6. 2. Postwar Colonialism, Communist Style 39
7. 3. In the Aftermath of the Great Dictator’s Death 66
8. 4. Fleeing the System: Literature and Emigration 92
9. 5. Internal Exile and the Literature of Escape 113
10. 6. Writers Behind Bars: Eastern European Prison Literature, 1945–1990 143
11. 7. The Reform Imperative in Eastern Europe: From Solidarity to Postmodernism 191
12. 8. Eastern European Women Poets of the 1980s and 1990s 233
13. 9. The House of Cards Collapses: The Literary Fallout of the Yugoslav Crises of the 1990s 264
14. 10. Glimpses of the Other World: America Through Eastern European Eyes 290
15. 11. The Postcolonial Literary Scene in Eastern Europe Since 1991 318
16. Notes 371
17. Further Reading 379
18. Index 383