"Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women, is the first collection of its kind and a necessary contribution to East European Studies and to Women's Studies in general. The collection explores various stereotypical perceptions and represen…
This collection traces representations of East European women in Western art and culture, drawing connections between these philosophical, artistic, and cultural constructions and actual historical, socio-political realities. The articles analyse narrative, theatre, opera, journ…
"Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women, is the first collection of its kind and a necessary contribution to East European Studies and to Women's Studies in general. The collection explores various stereotypical perceptions and represen…
The book opens and closes with the wars in former Yugoslavia, giving a different slant to the crisis in its study of novels and cinema from the region. The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and has simplified its historical and geographical complexities into …
"The book opens and closes with the wars in former Yugoslavia, giving a different slant to the crisis in its study of novels and cinema from the region. The West has constructed the Balkans as a primitive space and has simplified its historical and geographical complexities into…
'The lost girl' analyses a number of British writers between 1850 and 1930 and the (shifting) influence and role of the Persephone myth. In this myth Demeter sacrificed her daughter Kore-Persephone to the God of the Dead. This book, in addition to scrutinising canonical and less…
