Contesting Europe's Eastern Rim -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Expellees, Counterfactualism and Potatoes. Enlargement and Cross-National Debates in German-Polish Relations -- 2 The Role of Metaphor in Shaping Cultural Stereotypes: A Case Study of French Public Discourse on European Union Enlargement -- 3 Metaphors in German and Lithuanian Discourse Concerning the Expansion of the European Union -- Part II -- 4 Domestic and Foreign Media Images of the Balkans -- 5 Naming Strategies and Neighboring Nations in the Croatian Media -- 6 Mujahiddin in Our Midst: Bosnian Croats after the Wars of Succession -- 7 Construction of Serbian and Montenegrin Identities through Layout and Photographs of Leading Politicians in Official Newspapers -- 8 Krekism and the Construction of Slovenian National Identity: Newspaper Commentaries on Slovenia's European Union Integration -- 9 The Linguistic Image of the Balkans in the Polish Press in Discourse on European Union Expansion -- 10 The Eternal Outsider? Scenarios of Turkey's Ambitions to Join the European Union in the German Press -- Part III -- 11 Contested Identities: Miroslav Krleža's Two Europes versus the Notion of Europe's Edge -- 12 Masculinity and the New Sensibility: Reading a Contemporary Montenegrin Novel -- 13 The Rhetoric of Present Absence: Representing Jewishness in Post-Totalitarian Poland -- Conclusion.