基本説明
Combining sharp sociological observation, a native's ease in the city, and talent as a storyteller, Denise Roman spiritedly presents the myriad details and the diverging cultural strands of life in postcommunist Bucharest.
Full Description
Observing postcommunist Romania with the dual vision of a native and a scholar, Denise Roman focuses on the fluid act of identity-formation, and the construction or absence of identity-politics, in several minority or disempowered groups: youth, Jews, women, and queers. Roman shows how both aesthetic and moral judgments are born from and embedded in popular culture. Fragmented Identities is rich in observation and analysis, broad in scope, and exuberant in its account of cultural innovation and discourse wrought in response to the end of Communism and the influence of globalization.
Contents
Part 1 Everyday Life Chapter 2 A Flaneur through Bucharest at the End of the Twentieth Century Chapter 3 Discourses, Identities, and Practices of Everyday Life Part 4 Popular Culture Chapter 5 Aesthetics and Politics: From "Socialist Realism" to "Postcommunist Carnivalesque" Chapter 6 "Blue Jeans Generation" and "Generation PRO": Youth, Pop Culture, and Politics Chapter 7 Popular Culture and the Discourse of Hate: The Case of Anti-Semitism Part 8 Gender and Sexuality Chapter 9 The Postcommunist Feminine Mystique: Women as Subjects, Women and Politics Chapter 10 Between Ars Erotica and Scientia Sexualis: Queer Subjectivity and the Discourse of Sex
