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Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe
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 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.
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.
186 pages, Paperback
Published August 31, 2022
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March 2, 2024
I'm traveling to Albania this May and came across this book.
Rosen, by zooming in on two men who run a small press, unpacks Tirana through his coined terms of biblio-ethnography and reading nearby. As a very bookish person myself, I was fascinated to read about how books could (perhaps ) help a country make sense of a tumultuous past and forge a positive culture moving forward.
You don't have to be an anthropologist to enjoy this book, written in a conversational and accessible style. Recommend!
Rosen, by zooming in on two men who run a small press, unpacks Tirana through his coined terms of biblio-ethnography and reading nearby. As a very bookish person myself, I was fascinated to read about how books could (perhaps ) help a country make sense of a tumultuous past and forge a positive culture moving forward.
You don't have to be an anthropologist to enjoy this book, written in a conversational and accessible style. Recommend!
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