Fragmented Identities
Popular Culture, Sex, and Everyday Life in Postcommunist Romania
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
| Author: | Denise Roman | ISBN: | 9780739155141 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | April 16, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Denise Roman |
| ISBN: | 9780739155141 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | April 16, 2007 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
Observing postcommunist Romania with the dual vision of a native and a scholar, Denise Roman focuses on the fluid act of identity-formation, and the construction or absence of identity-politics, in several minority or disempowered groups: youth, Jews, women, and queers. Roman shows how both aesthetic and moral judgments are born from and embedded in popular culture. Fragmented Identities is rich in observation and analysis, broad in scope, and exuberant in its account of cultural innovation and discourse wrought in response to the end of Communism and the influence of globalization.
Observing postcommunist Romania with the dual vision of a native and a scholar, Denise Roman focuses on the fluid act of identity-formation, and the construction or absence of identity-politics, in several minority or disempowered groups: youth, Jews, women, and queers. Roman shows how both aesthetic and moral judgments are born from and embedded in popular culture. Fragmented Identities is rich in observation and analysis, broad in scope, and exuberant in its account of cultural innovation and discourse wrought in response to the end of Communism and the influence of globalization.
