Linguists, scholars of particular languages, and language specialists in such fields as psychology and anthropology examine issues surrounding the discursive creation of cultural identity in the broad swath between the Baltic and the Balkan peninsulae. They discuss the relationships between insiders and outsiders in the ongoing process of European Union enlargement, the perception of southeast Europe and its various nationalities as good guys and bad guys, and European insidereness and outsiderness in literary representations. Among the topics are the role of metaphor in shaping cultural stereotypes as demonstrated by French public discourse on European Union enlargement, the construction of Serbian and Montenegrin identities through layout and photographs of leading politicians in official newspapers, and Miroslav Krleza"s two Europes versus the notion of Europe"s edge. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)