Acknowledgements Barbara Korte: Facing the East of Europe in Its Western Isles: Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives East and West: Mirrorings Elisabeth Cheauré: Infinite Mirrorings: Russia and Eastern Europe as the West’s “Other” Mike Phillips: Narratives of Desire – A Writer’s Statement Christiane Bimberg: ‘A glimpse behind the scenes’, ‘trying to capture the very soul of things Russian’: Literary Representations of Intercultural East-West Encounters in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes Kapka Kassabova: From Bulgaria with Love and Hate: The Anxiety of the Distorting Mirror (A Writer’s Perspective) Two Poems Kapka Kassabova: Our Names Long and Foreign Kapka Kassabova: The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth Journeys, Encounters, Cultural Translations Elmar Schenkel: To Russia with Love: Maurice Baring (1874-1945) Dirk Wiemann: A Russian Romance: 1930s British Writers as Wishful Participants in the Soviet Revolution Sissy Helff: From Euphoria to Disillusionment: Representations of Communism and the Soviet Union in Arthur Koestler’s The Invisible Writing Eva Ulrike Pirker: The Unfinished Revolution: Black Perceptions of Eastern Europe Cinzia Mozzato: Looking Eastwards: Borders and Border-Crossing in the Work of Ken Smith A Play in One Act Mike Phillips: You Think You Know Me But You Don’t Stereotypes: Staying Power and Subversion Vedrana Veličković: Balkanisms Old and New: The Discourse of Balkanism and Self-Othering in Vesna Goldsworthy’s Chernobyl Strawberries and Inventing Ruritania Michael McAteer: A Troubled Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century Irish Protestant Literature Jonas Takors: ‘The Russians could no longer be the heavies’: From Russia with Love and the Cold War in the Bond Series Wolfgang Hochbruck, Elmo Feiten and Anja Tiedemann: ‘Vulchanov! Volkov! Aaaaaaand Krum!’: Joanne K. Rowling’s “Eastern” Europe Nadia Butt: Between Dream and Nightmare: Representation of Eastern Diaspora in Eastern Promises Susanne Schmid: Taking Embarrassment to Its Extremes: Borat and Cultural Anxiety Martin Hermann: Immigrants, Stereotypes and the New Ireland: Czech Identity in and in Response to the Film Once Christian Schmitt-Kilb: Gypsies and Their Representation: Louise Doughty’s Stone Cradle and David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green Polish Identities in Perspective: Accession – Integration – Perception Joanna Rostek and Dirk Uffelmann: Can the Polish Migrant Speak? The Representation of “Subaltern” Polish Migrants in Film, Literature and Music from Britain and Poland Przemysław Wilk: Images of Poles and Poland in The Guardian, 2003-2005 Marie-Luise Egbert: “Old Poles” and “New Blacks”: The Polish Immigrant Experience in Britain (Re-)Visiting Eastern Spaces in Contemporary British Fiction Corina Crişu: British Geographies in the Eastern European Mind: Rose Tremain’s The Road Home Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz: West Faces East: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent Short Fiction Michael Szczekalla: ‘Under Western Eyes’: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the Fiction of Martin Amis, Nicholas Shakespeare and Carl Tighe Ingrida Žindžiuvienė: Images of Lithuania in Stephan Collishaw’s Novels Claudia Duppé: Tourist in Her Native Country: Kapka Kassabova’s Street Without a Name Doris Lechner: Eastern European Memories? The Novels of Marina Lewycka Doris Lechner: Interview with Marina Lewycka Notes on Contributors Index