Transylvanian Voices

Author : Adam J. Sorkin,Liviu Bleoca (ed),Emese Egyed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015046875731

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Transylvanian Voices by Adam J. Sorkin,Liviu Bleoca (ed),Emese Egyed Pdf

This anthology of contemporary poets of Cluj-Napoca represents a strong, varied tradition, as varied as the changeable weather in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca. Recent Romanian poetry has been shaped by many factors in the 20th century. These include not only the four-decade-long Babylonian captivity of communism, which ended with the revolution of December 1989, but also the influence of powerful creative sensibilities through the voices of important literary personages. In part, communism impeded poetic achievement, not only by its restructions in style and theme (especially during the decade and a half, from the late-1940s until the mid-1960s), but also by its interruption of contact with European modernism, in which the writers of this geographically marginal culture had been a central, avant-garde presence. But in part, communist control also unintentionally served as a bracing tonic, a goad to poetic inventiveness and the natural ingenuity, indirectness and metaphorical and ironical obliqueness of the art, forcing poets -- who after the relatively relaxed period of the late-1960s faced a tightened, changing, but never totally restrictive censorship -- to find ways around the regime's prohibitions and follies. If nothing else, the totalitarian experience raised poetry to a central importance as witness to the spiritual terrors and material deprivations of the police state and as an essential participant in the resistance of the human psyche to denial of its integrity and its freedom. Adam J Sorkin is co-author of 'The Sky Behind the Forest', which was the Poetry Book Society Recommended selection in the translation category.

Author : Rogers Brubaker,Margit Feischmidt,Jon Fox,Liana Grancea
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691187792

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Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town by Rogers Brubaker,Margit Feischmidt,Jon Fox,Liana Grancea Pdf

Situated on the geographic margins of two nations, yet imagined as central to each, Transylvania has long been a site of nationalist struggles. Since the fall of communism, these struggles have been particularly intense in Cluj, Transylvania's cultural and political center. Yet heated nationalist rhetoric has evoked only muted popular response. The citizens of Cluj--the Romanian-speaking majority and the Hungarian-speaking minority--have been largely indifferent to the nationalist claims made in their names. Based on seven years of field research, this book examines not only the sharply polarized fields of nationalist politics--in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region--but also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. In doing so the book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works. Bridging conventional divisions of academic labor, Rogers Brubaker and his collaborators employ perspectives seldom found together: historical and ethnographic, institutional and interactional, political and experiential. Further developing the argument of Brubaker's groundbreaking Ethnicity without Groups, the book demonstrates that it is ultimately in and through everyday experience--as much as in political contestation or cultural articulation--that ethnicity and nationhood are produced and reproduced as basic categories of social and political life.

Author : Adam J. Sorkin,Liviu Bleoca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:98139213

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Transylvanian Voices by Adam J. Sorkin,Liviu Bleoca Pdf

Author : Ulrich Merten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351519540

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Forgotten Voices by Ulrich Merten Pdf

The news agency Reuters reported in 2009 that a mass grave containing 1,800 bodies was found in Malbork, Poland. Polish authorities suspected that they were German civilians that were killed by advancing Soviet forces. A Polish archeologist supervising the exhumation, said, "We are dealing with a mass grave of civilians, probably of German origin. The presence of children . . . suggests they were civilians."During World War II, the German Nazi regime committed great crimes against innocent civilian victims: Jews, Poles, Russians, Serbs, and other people of Central and Eastern Europe. At war's end, however, innocent German civilians in turn became victims of crimes against humanity. Forgotten Voices lets these victims of ethnic cleansing tell their story in their own words, so that they and what they endured are not forgotten. This volume is an important supplement to the voices of victims of totalitarianism and has been written in order to keep the historical record clear.The root cause of this tragedy was ultimately the Nazi German regime. As a leading German historian, Hans-Ulrich Wehler has noted, "Germany should avoid creating a cult of victimization, and thus forgetting Auschwitz and the mass killing of Russians." Ulrich Merten argues that applying collective punishment to an entire people is a crime against humanity. He concludes that this should also be recognized as a European catastrophe, not only a German one, because of its magnitude and the broad violation of human rights that occurred on European soil.Supplementary maps and pictures are available online at http://www.forgottenvoices.net

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466868304

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Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf

From the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genocide first became tools of policy. Chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, and greeted with critical acclaim as "the most insightful and timely work on the Balkans to date" (The Boston Globe), Kaplan's prescient, enthralling, and often chilling political travelogue is already a modern classic. This new edition of Balkan Ghosts includes six opinion pieces written by Robert Kaplan about the Balkans between 1996 and 2000 beginning just after the implementation of the Dayton Peace Accords and ending after the conclusion of the Kosovo war, with the removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power.

Author : Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1563247518

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The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies for 1994 by Patt Leonard,Rebecca Routh Pdf

This text provides a source of citations to North American scholarships relating specifically to the area of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It indexes fields of scholarship such as the humanities, arts, technology and life sciences and all kinds of scholarship such as PhDs.

Author : Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2898 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317451969

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Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia by Mary Zirin,Irina Livezeanu,Christine D. Worobec,June Pachuta Farris Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on "Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1)" and "The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2)" over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes.

Author : Darren (Norm) Longley,Tim Burford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781405386418

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The Rough Guide to Romania by Darren (Norm) Longley,Tim Burford Pdf

The brand new "Rough Guide to Romania" is the definitive handbook to one of Europe's most fascinating, scenic and least discovered countries. The full-colour introduction highlights all the 'things not to miss', from the wilds of the Carpathian mountains to the marvellous Delta wetlands, as well as the country's many unique festivals. Two full-colour sections describe the myriad outdoor activities available - from mountain hikes and skiing, to bear and wolf tracking - and the country's extraordinary religious architecture. The guide reviews all the top hotel and restaurant options to suit every taste and budget and the 'Author's Pick' feature highlights the very best, while there are concise maps and plans throughout.The contexts section includes informed background on Romania's history, wildlife, literature, music and, of course, Dracula.

Author : Daniela Crăsnaru
Publisher : BOA Editions, Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1880238799

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Sea-level 0 by Daniela Crăsnaru Pdf

Poems of rare brilliance and philosophical depth, translated with the perfect pitch of the poet.

Author : David Kirby
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820324787

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What is a Book? by David Kirby Pdf

In What Is a Book? David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic, and book. He discusses his students, his work, and his practice as a teacher, writer, critic, and reader, and positions his theories and opinions as products of "real" life as much as academic exercise. Among the ideas animating the book are Kirby's beliefs that "devotion is more important than dissection" and "practice is more important than theory." Covering an impressive range of writers--from Emerson, Poe, and Melville to James Dickey, Charles Wright, Richard Howard, Susan Montez, and others--Kirby considers the evolution of critical theory from the nineteenth century to the late twentieth and explores the role of criticism in contemporary culture. Drawing from his experience writing poetry and reading to children at a local housing project, he answers two of his four central questions: "What is a reader?" and "What is a writer?" In the largest section of the book, "What Is a Critic?," Kirby demonstrates his passionate engagement with the function of the critic in literary culture and offers both overviews and close examinations of literary theory, book reviewing, and the historical background of criticism from its earliest beginnings. In the final section of the book, he addresses the question "What is a book?" with an examination of the reading preferences of older readers. Kirby's analysis of those responses, along with his own notions of the literary canon, is an insightful excursion into how books are valued. Deeply learned and wonderfully entertaining, What Is a Book? is a lucid look at the whole of literary culture. Kirby makes us think about the books we love and why we love them.

Author : Csilla Bertha,Donald E. Morse
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1904505341

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Silenced Voices by Csilla Bertha,Donald E. Morse Pdf

"This book is a timely reminder of how theatre can not just entertain, but enlighten and transform us too. The five plays it collects are wonderfully theatrical, moving fluidly from absurdism to tragedy, and from satire to the darkly comic. The translators give us versions that will stimulate and delight readers. performers and audiences. And by giving voice to the 'forgotten playwrights of Central Europe', they also deeply enrich our understanding of the relationship between art, ethics and politics in Europe - both in the past and the present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gail Kligman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520318151

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The Wedding of the Dead by Gail Kligman Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781935554080

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The Castle in Transylvania by Jules Verne Pdf

Back from the dead: the first ever zombie story Before there was Dracula, there was The Castle in Transylvania. In its first new translation in over 100 years, this is the first book to set a gothic horror story, featuring people who may or may not be dead, in Transylvania. In a remote village cut off from the outside world by the dark mountains of Transylvania, the townspeople have come to suspect that supernatural forces must be responsible for the menacing apparitions emanating from the castle looming over them. But a visiting young count scoffs at their fears. He vows to liberate the villagers by pitting his reason against the forces of superstition – until he sees his dead beloved walking the halls of the castle….

Author : Thomas D. Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813189673

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The Voice of the Frontier by Thomas D. Clark Pdf

From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's Notes on Kentucky—the primary historical source for Kentucky's early years—are made available in a single volume, edited by the state's most distinguished historian. The Kentucky Gazette was established in 1787 to support Kentucky's separation from Virginia and the formation of a new state. Bradford's Notes deal at length with that protracted debate and the other major issues confronting Bradford and his pioneering neighbors. The early white settlers were obsessed with Indian raids, which continued for more than a decade and caused profound anxiety. A second vexing concern was overlapping land claims, as swarms of settlers flowed into the region. And as quickly as the land was settled, newly opened fields began to yield mountains of produce in need of outside markets. Spanish control of the lower Mississippi and rumors of Spain's plan to close the river for twenty-five years were far more threatening to the new economy than the continuing Indian raids. Equally disturbing was the British occupation of the northwest posts from which it was believed the northern Indianraids emanated. Not until Anthony Wayne's sweeping campaign against the Miami villages and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1794 was tension from that quarter relieved. Finally, the Jay Treaty with Britain and the Pinckney Treaty with Spain diplomatically cleared the Kentucky frontier for free expansion of the white populace. John Bradford's Notes on Kentucky, now published together for the first time, deal with all of these pertinent issues. No other source portrays so intimately or so graphically the travail of western settlement.

Author : Charles Boner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10009122

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Transylvania, Its Products and Its People by Charles Boner Pdf