{"product_id":"creolizing-the-modern-9781501765728","title":"Creolizing the Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled?\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e. Topics range from the question of the region''s capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. \u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ci\u003e Creolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e does precisely so.\u003c\/p\u003e * Miloš Jovanović, Journal of World-Systems Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCreolizing the Modern\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * José Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Face of Land: Peasants, Property and the Land Question\u003cbr\u003e 2. Transylvania in the World-System: Capitalist Integration, Peripheralization, Antisemitism\u003cbr\u003e 3. The longue durée of Enslavement: Extracting Labor from Romani Music\u003cbr\u003e 4. (Dis)Counting Languages: Transylvanian Interglotism between Hugo Meltzl and Liviu Rebreanu\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Inter-imperial Dowry Plot: Nationalism, Women's Labor, Violence against Women\u003cbr\u003e 6. Feminist Whims: Women's Education in an Inter-imperial Framework\u003cbr\u003e 7. God Is the New Church: The Ethnicization of Religion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409366425943,"sku":"9781501765728","price":97.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501765728.jpg?v=1730506554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/creolizing-the-modern-9781501765728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}