Creolizing the Modern
Transylvania Across Empires
Published on 15. October 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-5017-6656-5 (ISBN)
Description
How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion. Topics range from the question of the region's capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. Creolizing the Modern develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories.
Reviews / Votes
Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.(Milos Jovanovic, Journal of World-Systems Research) Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.
(Jose Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research) Innovative, boldly interdisciplinary, and conceptually ambitious, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca's Creolizing the Modern defies easy classification.
(Austrian History Yearbook)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
3 b&w halftones - 3 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-6656-5 (9781501766565)
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Persons
Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.
Manuela Boatca is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.
Manuela Boatca is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.
Content
Introduction
1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question
2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism
3. The longue duree of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music
4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu
5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women
6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework
7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion
1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question
2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism
3. The longue duree of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music
4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu
5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women
6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework
7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion