[Linganth] Matthew Rosen -- Tirana Modern

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the blog, Matthew Rosen answers Shinjung Nam's questions
addressing his book, Tirana Modern.

https://campanthropology.org/

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social
reality, *Tirana Modern* draws on ethnographic and historical material to
examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its starting
point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation
shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity?

Drawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of
readers, writers, and translators attached to the independent Albanian
publisher Pika pa sipërfaqe (Point without Surface), *Tirana Modern* provides
a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings
into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and
social reality as mediated by reading and literature.
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