{"product_id":"watersheds-poetics-and-politics-of-the-danube-river-9781618114877","title":"Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe's second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide Europe from non-Europe, and facilitating the flow of economic and cultural forms of international exchange. Yet the river has attracted surprisingly little scholarly attention, and what exists too often privileges single disciplinary or national perspectives. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to the river and its cultural imaginaries, the anthology \u003cem\u003eWatersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River\u003c\/em\u003e remedies this neglect and explores the river as a site of transcultural engagement in the New Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributions by Katherine Arens, Micaela Baranello, Marijeta Bozovic, Robert Dassanowsky, Dragan Kujund, Jessie Labov, Robert Lemon, Amanda Lerner, Tomislav Longinovi, Juliana Maxim, Matthew D. Miller,  Robert Nemes, Tanya Richardson, Karl Solibakke,  Jennifer Stob, Henry Sussman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If one considers the book as an entangled narrative fabric …, it transforms into the forum set forth by the editors: to meet and to merge, to enter into a critical dialogue, and to combine many perspectives and disciplines into one book. As a whole, \u003ci\u003eWatersheds\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond national perspectives and disciplines. It is more unifying than separating, more inclusive than exclusive. This book not only gives a more transnational direction to this interdisciplinary field of study, but it also opens new ways of looking at a range of authors and works that are not included. … After the Soviet Union dissolved and the central European states were incorporated into the European Union, the tension between inclusion and exclusion perhaps seemed to be resolved for a brief moment; East and West seemed to be closer to each other. But after multiple terrorist attacks, the refugee crisis, the Brexit vote, and recent elections, the notion of Danubia possesses an even stronger resonance, which suggests a tolerance of difference in a time when it appears that many new borders are dividing Europe. This emerging atmosphere of exclusion makes \u003ci\u003eWatersheds\u003c\/i\u003e an important contribution to scholarship of the Danube; it is a valuable book for everyone who can image a world without borders to read.” —Christiane Fischer, Rutgers University, \u003ci\u003eGerman Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 41 No. 3\u003c\/p\u003e -- Christiane Fischer * German Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e River Futures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural Imaginary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Katherine Arens\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 2\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Taking the Waters: The Danube’s Reception in Austrian and Central\/Eastern European Cinema History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Robert Dassanowsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Viennese Blood: Assimilation and Exclusion in Viennese Popular Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Micaela Baranello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Caught in the Effluvial Draft: The Fluid Sources of the Folktale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Henry Sussman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e New York on the Danube: The Transatlantic Transference of Habsburg Ethnology and Autocracy in Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Robert Lemon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Private Looking and Collective Memory in The Danube Exodus (1998)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jennifer Stob\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 7\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jelinek and the Roma: A Danubian Tragedy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Karl Ivan Solibakke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 8\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ravaged Empire: Water and Power in Prewar Hungary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Robert Nemes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Cold Days in the Cold War on the Hungarian-Serbian Border\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Jessie Labov\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Allergic Reactions: Danube and the Ex-centric Imaginary of Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tomislav Z. Longinović\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Against the Stream: The Danube, the Video, and the Nonbiodegradables of Europe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dragan Kujundžić\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Deconstructing Claims to (Jewish) Victimhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Amanda Lerner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Modernization’s Undercurrents: The Folk in Postwar Socialist Romanian Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Juliana Maxim\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Where the Water Sheds: Disputed Deposits at the Ends of the Danube\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tanya Richardson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Notes on Watersheds and Its Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359750881623,"sku":"9781618114877","price":84.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618114877.jpg?v=1754125601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/watersheds-poetics-and-politics-of-the-danube-river-9781618114877","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}