The ‘Second World’ embarks on and brings together research on perceptions, representations, and imaginary revisitations of Central and Eastern European socialism in contemporary British literature and culture. With particular interest in motifs, poetics, and intertextual references to the history and present-day significance of the Cold War, it aims to understand the East-West conflict within a broader context of global transformations since WWII.
Themes und Perspectives
- Ideas, Motifs, and Themes of the Cold War in British Literature and Culture
- Narratives of Progress and Perspectives on Totalitarian Ideologies
- The ‘Second World’ as a Chronotope: Moral Values and Political Virtues in Imaginary (Re/De)constructions of the Cold War
- Poetics of the Past, Allegories of the Present
- Memoir, Personal History, and Biofiction: the ‘Second World’ as a Genre
- The ‘Second World’ in Theatre: Global Drama on the National Stage