The volume ‘New Imagined Communities’, Identity Making in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, edited by Libuša Vajdová and Róbert Gáfrik, is the proceedings from the international conference ‘New Imagined Communities’: Identity Build-up in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe organised by Institute of World Literature of Slovak Academy of Science (Ústav svetovej literatúry SAV), Bratislava, and ICLA Research Committee on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and held on 14–15 May 2009, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The conference was attended by twenty-one scholars from all over Europe, including Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Ukraine, who gathered to share the results of their recent research. The volume is a selection from the papers presented at the conference. ukryj opis