Fixed Star America
Ideal and Illusion of Central Europe
Osteuropa 1/2011
Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2011 [=Osteuropa 1/2011]
280 pages, 47 figures
Price: 20,00 €
ISBN: 978-3-8305-1846-4
Deutsche Fassung
Contents
- Petr Fischer
The Paradoxical Icon of the New
America as Real Virtuality - Philipp Gassert
Stories of the End
Retrospect and Prospects for the American Century - Janusz Bugajski
Atlanticism without Orientation
The United States, Obama, and Europe - Adam Walaszek
“El dorado” and Reality
Emigration from Poland to the United States before 1914 - Donald Pienkos
Of Patriots and Presidents
America’s Polish Diaspora and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1917 - Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann
Changing Identities
The American Polish Diaspora and Its Mission - Peter Steiner
Views of an Emigrant
From the “American Dream” to the “American Experience” - Tomas Venclova
I’m Choking
Lithuania on Nationalist Wrong Track - Milan Hauner
Ideal and Idealisation
The Czechs and the United States - Josef Skála
Europe and America
Also-Ran in the Neo-Liberal Mainstream or Independent Player - Stefan Bednarek, Michał Matlak
More than Platonic Love
Poland’s Image of the United States of America - Tibor Frank
Who Owns History?
Changes in the Historical Image of America - Tomáš Sedláček
Little Differences
Images of American and European Culture - Dorothea Redepenning
Ambivalent America
B. Martinů, G. Enescu, and B. Bartók in the United States - Ulrich Schmid
A Somewhat Decayed, Large Republic
Czesław Miłosz’s Ambivalent Image of America - Jaroslav Peprník
Mayflower and Trash on the Moon
America in Czech Literature - Marina Dmitrieva
Overtake and Outrun
Americanism in the Architecture of the “Socialist Bloc” - Wojciech Orliński
Completely Karington
How America’s Culture Taught Us to Be Unequal (and Proud of It) - Rüdiger Ritter
Psychological Refugee Aid
American Music in Postwar Poland - Maria A. Slowinska
Shopping Frenzies and Addiction to Pleasure?
American Pop Culture in Poland