Andaluna Borcila

American Representations of Post-Communism

Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780415741385
• ISBN-10: 0415741386
• Artikelnr.: 40339511

Autorenporträt

Andaluna Borcila is Associate Professor of Comparative Cultures and Politics and Humanities, Culture and Writing at James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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