
Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory
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CONTENTS: Introduction: Memory, Nostalgia and Place-Writing in Eastern Europe - Königsberg as a Lapsed and Unfulfilled Site of Germany's Collective-Autobiographical Memory - Renaming Debates and Local Strategies of Collective-Autobiographical Memory in Kaliningrad - Lost 'Cultural Intimacy' and Individual Forms of Nostalgic Memory for Königsberg - Toppling a Monument: Adapting Biomyths in Satires on 'Kant and Königsberg' - 'Kant and Königsberg' and Failed Revolutions in Bertolt Brecht's Adaptation of Der Hofmeister - Countering Loss through Literature: Johannes Bobrowski's Imagined Königsberg - Joseph Brodsky in Kaliningrad: Postcards, Photographs and Reflections at the 'Earth's Border' - Ecocritical Post-Communism? Visits to Kaliningrad after Perestroika - Ruin Ethics and Aesthetics: 'Kant and Kaliningrad' in the Photography of Joachim Koester and Norbert Wiesneth - Conclusion: Writing Place and Bearing Witness.