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Maria Todorova begins her book Imagining the Balkans (1998) with a paraphrase of the opening line of The Communist Manifesto: ‘A spectre is haunting Western culture – the spectre of the Balkans’. In the twenty-first century a similar spectre is haunting Western Europe and Britain—the spectre of the ‘Eastern European’ migrant. Examining their visible and audible presence in twenty-first century Britain and Europe, the introduction sets the context with outline discussions of contemporary structures of Eastern European othering, via an intersectional approach of postcolonialism and postcommunism.
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Veličković, V. (2019). Introduction: “Where Are They Flocking From?”. In: Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53792-8_1
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