Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826504814)

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
ISBN-10: 0826504817
ISBN-13: 9780826504814
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2022
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d