Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Central and Eastern Europe and the West : affective relations / Ágnes Györke and Imola Bülgözdi -- Impersonal Affect and transpersonal community in the totaled city / Pieter Vermeulen -- Body, trauma, theatricality : rereading testimony in the stage performance of Sea lavender, or, The euphoria of being / Miklós Takács -- The city as a lyric archive of affects in Lisa Robertson's Occasional work and Seven walks / Katalin Pálinkáspart -- A closet of one's own : places of non-hegemonic masculinities and rites of retreat in contemporary Hungarian cinema / György Kalmár -- Young mothers, concrete cages : representations of maternity in Hungarian housing films from the 1970s and 1980s / Zsolt Győri -- Queer sex and the city : affective places of queerness in contemporary Hungarian cinema / Fanni Feldmann -- "They weren't even there yet and already the city was speaking to them" : the translocal experience as fascination with the city in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Imola Bülgözdi -- "I again put on my veil" : autobiographical narrative, feminism, and the emergence of border thinking in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis books / Márta Kőrösi -- 'Whichever way you go, you are sure to get somewhere' : dysgeographic mappings of playable loci and the 'compass' of girlish curiosity in Lewis Carroll's and China Miéville's spatial fantasies / Anna Kérchy -- Translocations of desire : urban topographies of love in Chimamanda Adichie's Americanah / Jennifer Leetsch -- Criminal affects : hard-boiled discourse and the new cultures of fear in Patrick Neate's City of tiny lights / Tamás Bényei -- Inventing history : Katalin Baráth's Hungarian Middlebrow detective series / Brigitta Hudácskó.

""Eastern Europeans, while not 'other' as much as Asians or Africans, are also 'not quite' European; rather, they are semi- European, semi- developed, with semi- functioning states and semi- civilized manners" concludes Nataša Kovačević, in an attempt to summarize the main differences between Eastern and Western Europe, in her introduction to Narrating Post/ Communism. The simple fact that Central European countries, with the exception of Germany and Austria, are at the same time also grouped under the term Eastern Europe due to their post- communist past, already hints at the complexity of this region's historical and cultural heritage"-- Provided by publisher.

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