Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction; The European Theme in Literature; The Idea of Europe Through History; Integration After the Cold War; Europe's Internal and External Conflicts; The Discourse and Practice of Exclusion; The Contributions; Notes; 2: Traumatic Europe: The Impossibility of Mourning in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz; Introduction; Unthinkable Death, Impossible Mourning; Austerlitz in Our Time; Notes; 3: Ágota Kristóf's Europe: (Un)Connectedness and (Non-)Belonging in The Third Lie; Notes
11: The Dilemmas of 'Post-Communism': Elizabeth Wilson's The Lost Time CaféNotes; 12: Minorities and Migrants: Transforming the Swedish Literary Field; Blurring Borders: Transforming Europe; Voicing Suppressed Histories: Minorities Speaking Back; A Popular Novel from the Swedish-Finnish Borderlands; Popular Music and Postcolonialism; Notes; 13: 'My Dream Can Also Become Your Burden': Semezdin Mehmedinović's Poetics of Self-Determination; Introduction: A Space for an Extraterritorial Literature; The Sarajevo Siege and the European Public Sphere; Bosnia Writes Back
4: Between Yearning and Aversion: Visions of Europe in Hilde Spiel's The Darkened RoomNotes; 5: The European Origins of Albania in Ismail Kadare's The File on H; Notes; 6: Images of Conquest: Europe and Latin American Identity; Notes; 7: Sissie's Odyssey: Literary Exorcism in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy; Notes; 8: European Fiction on the Borders: The Case of Herta Müller; Notes; 9: Borders, Borderlands and Romani Identity in Colum McCann's Zoli; Notes; 10: A Betrayal of Enlightenment: EU Expansion and Tõnu Õnnepalu's Border State; Notes
Introduction: Overlapping HistoriesDeconstructing the 'War on Terror'; Viale Marconi as Hybrid Space; The Treatment of Muslim Women; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Mehmedinović's Exilic Wandering: Writing, Drawing, PhotographyA Postcard from the Past: The Borders of Europe Reconfigured; Notes; 14: Blowing Hot and Cold: Georgia and the West; Notes; 15: Becoming Black in Belgium: Chika Unigwe and the Social Construction of Blackness; Introduction; Becoming a Black Writer in Flanders; Becoming Black in Antwerp's Red-Light District; Conclusion; Notes; 16: Undivided Waters: Spatial and Translational Paradoxes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's The Bridge of the Golden Horn; Notes; 17: Amara Lakhous's Divorce Islamic Style: Muslim Connections in European Culture