Watersheds Poetics and Politics of the Danube River [Hardcover]

From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europes 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 anthologyWatersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube Riverremedies this neglect and explores the river as a site of transcultural engagement in the New Europe.Marijeta Bozovicis Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, a specialist in Russian and Balkan literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the author ofNabokovs Canon: From Onegin to Ada(forthcoming with Northwestern University Press, 2016). Her research interests include poetry, avant-gardes, diasporas and transnational culture, translation and adaptation across media.Matthew D. Milleris Assistant Professor of German at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, specializing in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, theater, film, and critical and aesthetic theory. His book projectMauer, Migration, Maps: The German Epic in the Cold Warfocuses on works by Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge.List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

River Futures

Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew D. Miller

Chapter 1

Danube Limes: The Limits of the Geographic-Cultural Imaginary

Katherine Arens

Chapter 2

Taking the Waters: The Danubes Reception in Austrian and Central/Eastern European Cinema History

Robert Dassanowsky

Chapter 3

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