Tirana Modern

Matthew Rosen

Description

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. As its starting point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?

Drawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of readers, writers, and translators attached to 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.
Introduction: Writing the Relationship between Books and People
Chapter 1: One Hundred Years of Transformation
Chapter 2: Miracles of the Street
Chapter 3: In the Public Interest
Chapter 4: Reading Nearby
Chapter 5: Between Conflicting Systems
Conclusion: A Good Time to Read
Appendix. Pika pa sipërfaqe's Catalogue of Publications, November 2009–November 2021
Notes
References
Index

Sujets

• Literary Translation
• Social Science
• World Literature
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Public Culture
• Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development
• Southeast Europe
• Modernity
• Ethnography
• Capitalism
• Albania
• Anthropology
• Social
• Tirana
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 31 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826504845
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

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O N T H E M ARG I NS

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M AT T H E W R O S E N

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For the book readers In Tirana and beyond

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List o Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi

Contents

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Oé Hûé Yéàŝ ô Tàŝôàîô mîàçéŝ ô é Séé ï é pûîç ïééŝ réàîg Néà Bééé Côflîçîg Sŝéŝ Côçûŝîô. A Gôô Tîé ô réà

Appendix. Pika pa sipërae’s Catalogue o Publications, November 2009–November 2021 125 Notes137 Reerences147 Index163

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Illustrations

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