Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781557535733)

Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in Post Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centers have redefined their identities in the last two decades. Agata Anna Lisiak analyzes Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw as (post)colonial cities because their politics, cultures, societies, and economies have been shaped by two centers of power: the Soviet Union as the former colonizer whose influence remains visible predominantly in architecture, infrastructure, social relations, and mentalities, and the Western culture and the Western and/or global capital as the current colonizer, whose impact extends over virtually all spheres of urban life. Richly grounded in theoretical traditions ranging from semiotics to comparative cultural studies, this book is an important examination of what it means to be "Central European" in a period of profound cultural change.

Author: Agata Anna Lisiak
ISBN-10: 1557535736
ISBN-13: 9781557535733
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 129