Kristen Ghodsee

Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351023
• ISBN-10: 0822351021
• Artikelnr.: 33623067

Autorenporträt

Kristen Ghodsee is the Director and John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria and The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Echoes Off the Iron Curtain ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. The Road to Bulgaria, 1983-1990 1
1. Contraband, 1990 21
2. Kaloyan and Hristo, 1998 37
3. Her Lover in Cuba, 1999 47
4. Hair: Ethnographic Fiction 61
5. Shopaholic in Eastern Europe, 1998-2006 83
6. Carpets for Kilims, 1999 93
7. Comrades, 2107 101
8. Petar Hails a Cab: Ethnographic Fiction 107
9. Bassets in the Balkans, 2005 117
10. The Master of Conspiracies, 2005 123
11. An Explosion of Sofia, 2008 131
12. Coffee: Ethnographic Fiction 143
13. Kaloyan in Maine, 2009 151
14. Tito Trivia: Ethnographic Fiction 155
15. Pilgrims from Sofia to Zagreb, 2009 161
Afterword. Lost in Transition, 2010 177
Appendix. Timeline of Twentieth-Century Communism 195
Further Reading 201