Tirana Modern

Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0481-4
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Writing the Relationship Between Books and People
- 1. One Hundred Years of Transformation
- 2. Miracles of the Street
- 3. In the Public Interest
- 4. Reading Nearby
- 5. Between Conflicting Systems
- Conclusion: A Good Time to Read
- Appendix: Pika pa sipËrfaqe's Catalogue of Publications, November 2009–November 2021
- References
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Rosen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University.