How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system. Historical Transylvania, at the intersection of the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Russia, offers the platform for their multi-level reading of the main themes in Liviu Rebreanu's 1920 novel Ion. Topics range from the question of the region's capitalist integration to antisemitism and the enslavement of Roma to multilingualism, gender relations, and religion. Creolizing the Modern develops a comparative method for engaging with areas of the world that have inherited multiple, conflicting imperial and anti-imperial histories.

About the Author

Anca Parvulescu is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter and The Traffic in Women's Work.
Manuela Boatca is a professor at the Institute of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Program at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is the author of Global Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism and co-editor of Decolonizing European Sociology.

Reviews

Creolizing the Modern delivers. This book's crowning achievement is its insertion of East Central Europe, with all its particularities, in the historical development of capitalist modernity. [U]nraveling the threads of its predicament can teach us much about our world. Creolizing the Modern does precisely so.

* Milos Jovanovic, Journal of World-Systems Research *

Creolizing the Modern is one of the most important books published in the last years. It is an outstanding book that deserves to be read and discussed widely.

* Jose Itzigsohn, Journal of World-Systems Research *


Awards
Winner of Rene Wellek Prize 2023 (United States) and Barrington Moore Prize 2023 (United States). Runner-up for Immanuel Wallerstein Memorial Book Award of the American Sociological Association 2023 (United States). Commended for George Blazyca Prize in East European Studies (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9781501766565
Author Anca Parvulescu
Format Paperback
Page Count 270
Imprint Cornell University Press
Publisher Cornell University Press
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm