Revolution's Urban Landscape: Bucharest Culture and Postcommunist Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783631348277)

What are the implications of change as assessed from a Revolution's discourse point of view? Did Revolution in its Eastern European mode happen only to make its once heroic agents vulgar banana eaters (Slavoj Zizek)? To what extent is/was Revolution part of the globalization process (Americanization)? The answer of this book is that it constituted a series of occurrences of both contingency and continuation. It is Romanian Revolution as a metonymic and creative space, incorporating the Event (here the city of Bucharest, December 1989-1990), the Memory (refiguration of identities), the Contact zone (the street as a public place), and the Local-Global (the East-West dialectics) that Revolution's Urban Landscape discusses in much detail. Through combining and analysing materials from both the local cultural field and the international press (witness reports, journalistic documentation, travelogues, fiction, academic publishing, graffiti, etc.), Raoul Granqvist demonstrates a number of aspects of Revolution's self-reflexivity, vitality and amorphousness. The Romanian book industry, through its absorption and introduction of new areas of popular reading (such as the American romance), embodies, this book explains, the basic instincts of Revolution towards openness and interaction.

Author: Raoul Granqvist
ISBN-10: 3631348274
ISBN-13: 9783631348277
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback