Table of Contents
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Andrew Hammond
1 Traumatic Europe: The Impossibility of Mourning in W.G. Sebald’s
Austerlitz Theodore Koulouris
2 Ágota Kristóf’s Europe: (Un)Connectedness and (Non)Belonging in The Third Lie
Metka Zupančič
3 Between Yearning and Aversion: Visions of Europe in Hilde Spiel’s The Darkened Room
Christoph Parry 4 The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare’s The File on H
Peter Morgan
5 Images of Conquest: Europe and Latin American Identity
Peter Beardsell
6 Sissie’s Odyssey: Literary Exorcism in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy
Esther Pujolràs-Noguer
7 European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller
Marcel Cornis-Pope and Andrew Hammond
8 Borders, Borderlands and Romani Identity in Colum McCann’s Zoli
Mihaela Moscaliuc
9 A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and Tõnu Õnnepalu’s Border State
Gordana P. Crnković
10 The Dilemmas of ‘Post-Communism’: Elizabeth Wilson’s The Lost Time Café
Andrew Hammond
11 Minorities and Migrants: Transforming the Swedish Literary Field
Anne Heith
12 ‘My Dream Can Also Become Your Burden’: Semezdin Mehmedinović’s Poetics of Self-Determination
Guido Snel
13 Blowing Hot and Cold: Georgia and the West
Donald Rayfield
14 Becoming Black in Belgium: Chika Unigwe and the Social Construction of Blackness
Sarah de Mul
15 Undivided Waters: Spatial and Translational Paradoxes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s The Bridge of the Golden Horn
Gizem Arslan
16 Amara Lakhous’s Divorce Islamic Style: Muslim Connections in European Culture
Daniele Comberiati
Bibliography Index