Creolizing the Modern
Transylvania across Empires
Manuela Boatcă author Anca Parvulescu author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Published:15th Oct '22
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How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă 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.
Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.
* Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research *Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.
* José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Resear- Winner of René Wellek Prize 2023 (United States)
- Winner of Barrington Moore Prize 2023 (United States)
- Runner-up for Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award of the American Sociological Association 2023 (United States)
- Runner-up for George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies 2024 (United States)
ISBN: 9781501766565
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
Weight: 454g
270 pages