Transatlantic Central Europe. Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond

The concept of 'Central Europe' has receded as a political and intellectual project, and the term has lost most of the weight it had in the 1980s and early 1990s. Proponents of a distinct cultural profile of this group of countries—all now involved in the process of Transatlantic integration—used 'Central European' as an alternative for the geo-political label of Eastern Europe. This book discusses the transnational set of practices connecting journals with other media in the mid-1980s that disseminated the idea of Central Europe simultaneously in East and West. The author employs a range of new methods, including GIS-mapping visualization, repositioning the political-cultural journal as one central node of a much larger cultural system.