Tirana Modern

Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Matthew Rosen

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Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. Formulated as a question, the topic of the book is: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?Drawing on material from the independent Albanian publisher, Pika pa sipërfaqe (“Point without Surface”), Tirana Modern provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-08-31
Mått152 x 228 x 10 mm
Vikt151 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor186
FörlagVanderbilt University Press
ISBN9780826504814

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This is a story of desires, aspirations, and visions, as well as the precarity and violence of post-socialist late-capitalism, located in the seemingly profane choice—what to translate and publish next, and why. As such, it is a compelling ethnography of how ideas move about through literary and social cross-referencing, actions taken, and meanings attributed to physical and imagined social, political, and economic locations, spaces, and practices."—Nita Luci, author of The Politics of Remembrance and Belonging: Life Histories of Albanian Women in Kosova"This book is a pioneering contribution to literary ethnography, literary history, and the role of literature in contemporary Albania."—NataŠa Gregorič Bon, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts