{"product_id":"revolutions-urban-landscape-raoul-granqvist-9783631348277","title":"Revolution's Urban Landscape: Bucharest Culture and Postcommunist Change","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eRevolution's Urban Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raoul Granqvist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3631348274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783631348277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Raoul Granqvist","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48588027691263,"sku":"9783631348277","price":66.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/revolutions-urban-landscape-raoul-granqvist-9783631348277","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}