The comparative literature and culture scholar Steven Totosy de Zepetnek proposes a theoretical designation he terms »in-between peripherality« for the study of East Central European literatures and cultures as well as ethnic minority and diasporic writing and art. This term acknowledges the peripherality of these literatures and cultures in relation to traditional cultural European »centers«, but at the same time does not lose from sight that East Central European literatures and cultures have long histories of their own, enjoying a certain degree of cultural sovereignty and self-referentiality.. See p. 10, Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven. 1998. Comparative Literature. Theory, Method, Application, Rodopi: Amsterdam/Atlanta.

See p. 26, Faber, Vera. Die ukrainische Avantgarde zwischen Ost und West (The Ukrainian Avantgarde between East and West). 2019. transcript Verlag – Edition Kulturwissenschaften: Bielefeld.