Katherine Verdery

My Life as a Spy

Investigations in a Secret Police File

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Produktbeschreibung

Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her to question her identity and also revealed how deeply the secret police was embedded in everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780822370819
• ISBN-10: 0822370816
• Artikelnr.: 48433395

Autorenporträt

Katherine Verdery

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
A Note of Fonts, Pseudonyms, and Pronunciation  xiii
Acknowledgments  xv
Prologue  1
Part I. Research under Surveillance
1. The 1970s: "The Folklorist" as Military Spy  33
2. The 1980s: The Enemy's Many Masks  111
Excursus. Reflections on Reading One's File  181
Part II. Inside the Mechanisms of Surveillance
3. Revelations  195
4. Ruminations  277
Epilogue  295
Notes  299
Bibliography  309
Index  315