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Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism's disintegration and the narratives articulated around post-communist sites and subjects.
Table des matières
Introduction 1. Disintegrating Communism: The Normative Site of the Berlin Wall 2. Accessing the Romanian Revolution: Romania's Journey from Fringe Zone to Symptomatic Site 3. On-site Encounters and Overexposed Sites: Post-communist Televisual Romania 4. Desiring, Mapping and Naming Eastern Europe: The Discourse of Travel Guides 5. With Different Eyes? Self-Seeing and Mapping in Narratives of Return Conclusions
A propos de l'auteur
Andaluna Borcila is Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics and Humanities, Culture and Writing at James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA.
Résumé
Using an understudied archive of American news broadcasts, and tracing their flashes and echoes through travel guides and narratives of return written by Eastern European-Americans, this book explores American ways of seeing and mapping communism’s disintegration and the narratives articulated around post-communist sites and subjects.