American Representations of Post-Communism: Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138548381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Andaluna Borcila

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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