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.
Author: Matthew Rosen
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 08/31/2022
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780826504821
ISBN10: 0826504825
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
Author: Matthew Rosen
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 08/31/2022
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780826504821
ISBN10: 0826504825
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries
About the Author
Matthew Rosen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University.