Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires

Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires
ISBN-10
1501765736
ISBN-13
9781501765735
Category
History
Pages
270
Language
English
Published
2022-10-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Authors
Manuela Boatcă, Anca Parvulescu

Description

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.

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