Preface / Christian Moraru -- Introduction : imagination without walls / Aaron Chandler -- Shifting paradigms : East European literatures at the turn of the millennium / Marcel Cornis-Pope -- Cosmallogy : Mircea Cărtărescu's Nostalgia--the body, the city, the world / Christian Moraru -- The screen of the city : Sofia's transitional urbanscapes, 1989-2007 / Alexander Kiossev -- Facing globalization : Lithuanian urbanism between postcommunism and postmodernity / Almantas Samalavicius -- Shakespeare after shock therapy : neoliberalism and culture in the postcommunist Czech Republic / Marcela Kostihová -- Kadare after communism : Albania, the Balkans, and Europe in the Post-1990 work of Ismail Kadare / Peter Morgan -- Postcommunist spectacle : Germany, commodity, comedy / Jennifer Ruth Hosek -- The anxiety of freedom : contemporary Slovenian literature and the globalizing/postmodern world / Matevž Kos -- Late communist and postcommunist avant-garde aesthetics : interrogations of community / Nataša Kovačević -- Global media and national value : postsocialist negotiations / Anikó Imre -- Love game : East European athletes and the culture of global celebrity / Phyllis Whitman Hunter -- Nomadic homes, postmodern travel, and the geopolitical imaginary in the post-totalitarian cultures of Poland and Ukraine / Irene Sywenky
