Creolizing the modern : Transylvania across empires / Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parvulescu, Anca, author.

Boatcă, Manuela, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rebreanu, Liviu, 1885-1944. Ion.

Rebreanu, Liviu.

Literature and globalization--Romania--Transylvania.

Literature and globalization.

Literature and transnationalism--Romania--Transylvania.

Literature and transnationalism.

Land use--Social aspects--Romania--Transylvania.

Land use.

Imperialism.

Transylvania (Romania)--Social conditions.

Transylvania (Romania).

Transylvania (Romania)--Ethnic relations.

Transylvania (Romania)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The face of land: peasants, property, and the land question

Transylvania in the world-system: capitalist integration, peripheralization, antisemitism

The longue duree of enslavement: extracting labor from Romani music

(Dis)Counting languages: Transylvanian interglottism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu

The interimperial dowry plot: nationalism, women's labor, violence against women

Feminist whims: women's education in an interimperial framework

God is the new church: the ethnicization of religion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Parvulescu, Anca Creolizing the Modern

ISBN:

9781501766565

1501766562

9781501765735

1501765736

OCLC:

1315574125