Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Facing the East of Europe in Its Western Isles: Charting Backgrounds, Questions and Perspectives -- East and West: Mirrorings -- Infinite Mirrorings: Russia and Eastern Europe as the West's "Other" -- Narratives of Desire - A Writer's Statement -- '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 -- From Bulgaria with Love and Hate: The Anxiety of the Distorting Mirror (A Writer's Perspective) -- Two Poems -- Our Names Long and Foreign -- The Travel Guide to the Country of Your Birth -- Journeys, Encounters, Cultural Translations -- To Russia with Love: Maurice Baring (1874-1945) -- A Russian Romance: 1930s British Writers as Wishful Participants in the Soviet Revolution -- From Euphoria to Disillusionment: Representations of Communism and the Soviet Union in Arthur Koestler's The Invisible Writing -- The Unfinished Revolution: Black Perceptions of Eastern Europe -- Looking Eastwards: Borders and Border-Crossing in the Work of Ken Smith -- A Play in One Act -- You Think You Know Me But You Don't -- Stereotypes: Staying Power and Subversion -- Balkanisms Old and New: The Discourse of Balkanism and Self-Othering in Vesna Goldsworthy's Chernobyl Strawberries and Inventing Ruritania -- A Troubled Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in Nineteenth-Century Irish Protestant Literature -- 'The Russians could no longer be the heavies': From Russia with Love and the Cold War in the Bond Series -- 'Vulchanov! Volkov! Aaaaaaand Krum!': Joanne K. Rowling's "Eastern" Europe -- Between Dream and Nightmare: Representation of Eastern Diaspora in Eastern Promises -- Taking Embarrassment to Its Extremes: Borat and Cultural Anxiety.

Immigrants, Stereotypes and the New Ireland: Czech Identity in and in Response to the Film Once -- Gypsies and Their Representation: Louise Doughty's Stone Cradle and David Mitchell's Black Swan Green -- Polish Identities in Perspective: Accession - Integration - Perception -- Can the Polish Migrant Speak? The Representation of "Subaltern" Polish Migrants in Film, Literature and Music from Britain and Poland -- Images of Poles and Poland in The Guardian, 2003-2005 -- "Old Poles" and "New Blacks": The Polish Immigrant Experience in Britain -- (Re-)Visiting Eastern Spaces in Contemporary British Fiction -- British Geographies in the Eastern European Mind: Rose Tremain's The Road Home -- West Faces East: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent Short Fiction -- 'Under Western Eyes': Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the Fiction of Martin Amis, Nicholas Shakespeare and Carl Tighe -- Images of Lithuania in Stephan Collishaw's Novels -- Tourist in Her Native Country: Kapka Kassabova's Street Without a Name -- Eastern European Memories? The Novels of Marina Lewycka -- Interview with Marina Lewycka -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.