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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia
This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas. They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition and the tasks of democratic consolidation. They argue that, although "nation-state" and "democracy" often have conflicting logics, multiple and complementary political identities are feasible under a comm...
History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe
Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites--multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions--that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, howev.
Heroes and Victims
The cultural politics of commemorating war.
Aproximații
Aproximaţii este o carte de critică literară în care autorul a înregistrat cele mai importante apariţii din literatura română a ultimilor ani, în studii critice, cronici literare şi eseuri care comentează cărţi, scriitori sau tendinţe ale momentului actual. Structurată în trei cicluri, cartea lui Iulian Boldea se remarcă prin precizia formulărilor, obiectivitatea enunţurilor şi prin metodele critice adecvate valorificate. Tototdată, ea conţine numeroase puncte de vedere, perspective şi ipoteze critice meritorii, după cum vădeşte o extremă atenţie la nuanţele textului, la relieful său subliminal. Demersul critic al autorului se caracterizează, înainte de toate, prin rigoarea aserţiunilor şi relevanţa demonstraţiei. Între autorii comentaţi în această carte, pot fi amintiţi Virgil Nemoianu, Al. Paleologu, Nicolae Manolescu, Gabriel Liiceanu, Adrian Marino, Ion Vartic, Marta Petreu, Mircea Muthu, Dan Culcer, Ştefan Borbely, Horia Bădescu, Vasile Dan, Eugen Dorcescu, Ion Zubascu ş.a.
Building Socialism, Constructing People
This volume focuses on the issue of identity within the context of the radical shift that took place in Romania during the late 1940s and early 1950s, as a result of the process of Sovietisation, or “cultural colonisation” (a concept analysed in particular detail in this book). It adopts a novel approach to this theme, by studying the issue of identity within the context of the first decade of the Romanian communist regime, with the help of a series of concepts and theories belonging to the disciplines of Western cultural, media and gender studies, as well as those relating to colonialism and imperialism. Of particular interest to this volume is the use of the press as an essential instr...
Cenaclul de Luni
„Volumul acesta este unul pasionant, unul care se citește adeseori ca un roman ideatic și evenimențial al preistoriei și al istoriei generației optzeciste, cu toate tribulațiile pe care le-a avut aceasta pe parcursul ei accidentat, cu momente în care s-a impus sau cu momente dramatice, ce au dus la interzicerea Cenaclului de Luni. Chiar din primul capitol, Cosmin Ciotloș își construiește într-un mod ingenios, aș zice muzical, structura. Cu o răbdare de chinez bătrân, autorul a parcurs colecțiile revistelor, a înregistrat si a analizat cronicile de cenaclu, apoi antologiile cenaclului si tot ceea ce privea mișcarea literară tânără și prefigura un nou climat literar."...
Imagining Home
In an age of shifting social and political landscapes, there is one constant challenge individuals and groups have to face: that of internalizing the tension between the two opposing tendencies that rule the world today, homogenization and heterogenization. People transgress the limits of nationality, ethnicity, and culture in order to become citizens of the world, while at the same time longing for stability and certainty. Imagining Home: Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives interprets the polymorphous development of two exiled writers’ identities, from the point of view of their “migrant” condition. Their restless, nomadic existence, perfectly reflected in the geographical territories mapped by the books under discussion, involves crossing boundaries, negotiating difference, and the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture. The outcome provides an insight into the concepts of Romanianness and Americanness, analysing them through the notions of alo-images and infra-images, while at the same time developing a context and a reading approach for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Critică şi empatie
De câte ori cedez tentaţiei instrospective, constat că, în economia vieţii mele intelectuale, cronica literară reprezintă un exerciţiu de realitate/ actualitate ideală, generator de reacţii suprapuse, cu reverberaţii multiple, în care raţionalitatea şi empatia funcţionează într-o sinergie variabilă. Înregistrată în primă fază ca o practică disruptivă în raport cu proiectele mai ample, iscate din obsesii culturale şi marcate de distanţă, aceasta mă aruncă într-o actualitate literară implacabil fragmentară la palierul receptării, faţă de care curiozitatea intelectuală şi fascinaţia trebuie să-şi găsească rezolvări de scurtă respiraţie, disciplinat formulate în opt mii de semne. Constantina Raveca Buleu
