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| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Café Europa Slavenka Drakulic, 2013-01-17 Europe is still a divided continent. In the place of a fallen Berlin wall, there is a chasm between the East and the West. Are these differences a communist legacy, or do they run even deeper? What divides us today? To say simply that it is the understanding of the past, or a different concept of time, is not enough. But a visitor to this part of the world will soon discover that we, the Eastern Europeans, live in another time zone. We live in the twentieth century, but at the same time we inhabit a past full of myths and fairy tales, of blood and national belonging, and the fact that most people are lying and cheating or that they have the habit of blaming others for every failure...' An intimate tour of life on the streets of Budapest, Tirana, Warsaw and Zagreb, as those cities continue to acclimatise to the post-Communist thaw, Café Europa does not provide easy solutions or furnish political pallatives. Rather as a Croatian with a viewpoint of ever-widening relevance, the value of Slavenka Drakulic's wry and humane observations lie in the emotional force of their honesty and the clarity of their insight..... |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: After the Fall Noemi Marin, 2007 Noemi Marin analyzes famous writers from the area as critical intellectuals and exiles in order to explore the role of rhetoric and identity in writers' own experiences during the long history of communism. Along with examinations of discursive relationships among power, culture and resistance in works by George Konrad, Andrei Codrescu, and Siavenka Drakulic before and after the fall of communism, Marin proposes specific dimensions for a rhetoric of exile pertinent to communist Eastern and Central Europe. After the Fall shows how critical works on identity, culture, and communist history by the writers studied aid in reconstituting a rhetoric of dissidence, identity, and legitimation in the public discourse of a changing Europe. The book offers a unique perspective on the complex contexts of political transition, in which competing public discourse on freedom and democracy intersect with totalitarian regimes, unsettled societies, and issues of resistance. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Essays on Ayn Rand's "We the Living" Robert Mayhew, 2012-02-16 Ayn Rand remains a truly significant figure of modern philosophy. Her unique vision of a world in which man, relying on reason, acts wholly for his own good is skillfully developed and illustrated in her most famous novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. But Rand's first novel, We the Living, a lesser-known but no less important book, offers an early form of the author's nascent philosophy—the philosophy Rand later called Objectivism. In the second edition, Robert Mayhew once again brings together pre-eminent scholars of Rand's writing. The edition includes three new chapters, as well as an epilogue by renowned Rand-scholar Leonard Peikoff. In part a history of We the Living, from its earliest drafts to the Italian film later based upon it, Mayhew's collection goes on to explore the enduring significance of Rand's first novel as a work both of philosophy and of literature. For Ayn Rand scholars and fans alike, this enhanced second edition is a compelling examination of a novel that set the tone for some of the most influential philosophical literature to follow. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Writing Life: A Canadian Student’s Guide to Thinking, Writing and Researching John Cornell Van Rys, Randall VanderMey, Verne Meyer, Patrick Sebranek, 2015-05-11 Based on the successful text, The College Writer, Writing Life: A Canadian Student’s Guide to Thinking, Writing, and Researching is built upon the belief that good writing is an important skill, not just for academic success, but beyond into life as well. Bringing together a rhetoric that introduces the writing process, a selection of readings, guide to doing quality research in the internet age and a handbook, these four sections offer students a comprehensive guide to writing. This edition incorporates Canadian essays, by students and professionals, critical thinking and an overall emphasis on reading as a foundation to improving one’s writing skills. Between two covers Writing Life offers students a comprehensive guide to writing for postsecondary and beyond. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Politics and the Sacred Harald Wydra, 2015-04-30 Argues that practices of the sacred have shaped the frames of modern secular politics. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Let's Twist Again Karin Taylor, 2006 This book explores the lives of young Bulgarians in the Cold War era when the Communist Party saw dance hits like The Twist as a menace to youth and society. It investigates the Party's efforts to shape youth into socialist personalities and to create a socialist mass culture in the face of Westernization. On the basis of biographical interviews, the book takes a critical look at the popular view of youth enthusiasm for Western rock and lifestyles as resistance. Young Bulgarians scarcely challenged the socialist order. But at the same time, the Party failed to impose its notion of conformity on the self-proclaimed Beatles generation. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Working in the Community Rod Purcell, 2005-07-29 A book for all those engaged in working for change in communities. The book explores the nature of community development and social change in a time of globalisation and post modern culture. It proposes, and explores, a Freirian driven participatory model of practice. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe Eric Langenbacher, Bill Niven, Ruth Wittlinger, 2013-03-01 The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Tourism and Gender Annette Pritchard, 2007-01-01 While contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as passé, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of studies seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include the construction of narratives, how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience, the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality, and finally how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Balkan Holocausts? David Bruce Macdonald, 2002 Balkan Holocausts? compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analyzing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centered writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry, and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: EU, Europe Unfinished Zlatan Krajina, Nebojša Blanuša, 2016-09-23 Explores the rapidly changing relationship between the Balkans and the EU in a time of crisis |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Displaced Women Lucia Aiello, Joy Charnley, Mariangela Palladino, 2014-03-17 The essays included in this volume mostly originate from the conference organised by the editors at Glasgow Women’s Library in March 2012. Language, multilingual narratives and interaction between cultures and languages were key themes of the conference. Interdisciplinary and international, the conference, like this edited volume, brought together specialists working in a range of fields and provided an opportunity for exchanges between historians, sociologists, scientists and literary scholars, as well as between theoreticians and practitioners, academics and non-academics. In spite of these many different approaches, all the papers presented here transcend the idea of ‘national identity’ as an epic heritage or destiny, both linguistic and literary, and suggest a much more fluid definition of citizenship. Working from this perspective and within this general framework, both the editors and the contributors of this volume encourage a broader discussion on women’s narratives of displacement that compels us to rethink the notions of ‘mother tongue’ and ‘native speaker’ and raises philosophical questions about linguistic ownership; in other words, whether a language is owned, appropriated, imposed or rejected and how women experience and express their sense of ‘permanent strangeness’. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Where are Europe’s New Borders? Anthony Cooper, 2018-02-02 Europe’s borders have always been historically ambiguous and dynamic, whereby borders shift and change character and new borders replace older ones. By focusing upon the title question ‘where are Europe’s new borders’, this volume looks at the present state of European bordering and questions the often taken for granted relationships between borders, borderers and the bordered. While each chapter concentrates on a different (but overlapping) border issue or perspective, they are united through their focus on the level of everyday bordering practices and experiences, as well as the meaning that borders have upon all stakeholders and the relationships between them. To talk about border meaning (including the perspective of the researchers themselves), and how that meaning continually (re)creates and is (re)created by bordering practices, is to critically question where important borders lie, why and for whom do they matter and how are they imposed, maintained and resisted. As a result the chapters engage with issues of border violence, the power of maps and symbols (carto-politics), migrant mobility, gender and the rise of the far right in Europe. Taken together this edited collection will be of interest to border scholars as well as students of European politics more generally. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Mary Zirin, Irina Livezeanu, Christine D. Worobec, June Pachuta Farris, 2015-03-26 This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and multilingual bibliography on Women and Gender in East Central Europe and the Balkans (Vol. 1) and The Lands of the Former Soviet Union (Vol. 2) over the past millennium. The coverage encompasses the relevant territories of the Russian, Hapsburg, and Ottoman empires, Germany and Greece, and the Jewish and Roma diasporas. Topics range from legal status and marital customs to economic participation and gender roles, plus unparalleled documentation of women writers and artists, and autobiographical works of all kinds. The volumes include approximately 30,000 bibliographic entries on works published through the end of 2000, as well as web sites and unpublished dissertations. Many of the individual entries are annotated with brief descriptions of major works and the tables of contents for collections and anthologies. The entries are cross-referenced and each volume includes indexes. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Narrating the City Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Matthew P. Berg, Anastasia Christou, 2015-09-01 In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: History of Communism in Europe vol. 1 / 2010 Corina Dobos, Marius Stan, 2010-01-01 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Guests in the House Mats Roslund, 2007 Based on the study of style transmission in medieval ceramics, the author interprets the shared cultural and political history of Slavs and Scandinavians 900 to 1300 AD. The reproduction of cultural identity is discussed in relation to changes in politics. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Lost in Transition Kristen Ghodsee, 2011-09-14 Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Book Review Digest , 2000 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed Slavenka Drakulic, 1993-05-12 Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Café Europa Revisited Slavenka Drakulic, 2021-01-05 Drakulić’s composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. —The New Yorker An evocative and timely collection of essays that paints a portrait of Eastern Europe thirty years after the end of communism. An immigrant with a parrot in Stockholm, a photo of a girl in Lviv, a sculpture of Alexander the Great in Skopje, a memorial ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Soviet led army invasion of Prague: these are a few glimpses of life in Eastern Europe today. Three decades after the Velvet Revolution, Slavenka Drakulic, the author of Cafe Europa and A Guided Tour of the Museum Of Communism, takes a look at what has changed and what has remained the same in the region in her daring new essay collection. Totalitarianism did not die overnight and democracy did not completely transform Eastern European societies. Looking closely at artefacts and day to day life, from the health insurance cards to national monuments, and popular films to cultural habits, alongside pieces of growing nationalism and Brexit, these pieces of political reportage dive into the reality of a Europe still deeply divided. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Europe , 1998 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Handbook of Developments in Consumer Behaviour Victoria Wells, G. R. Foxall, 2012-01-01 This Handbook examines the area of consumer behaviour from the perspective of current developments and developing areas for the discipline, to new opportunities that comprehend the nature of consumer choice and its relationship to marketing. Consumer research incorporates perspectives from a spectrum of long-established sciences: psychology, economics and sociology. This Handbook strives to include this multitude of sources of thought, adding geography, neuroscience, ethics and behavioural ecology to this list. Encompassing scholars with a passion for researching consumers, this Handbook highlights important developments in consumer behaviour research, including consumer culture, impulsivity and compulsiveness, ethics and behavioural ecology. It examines evolutionary and neuroscience perspectives as well as consumer choice. Undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in marketing with interests in consumer behaviour will find this enriching resource invaluable. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: The Library Journal , 1997 Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: What to Study Eric Freedman, Edward Hoffman, 1997 Essential facts on 101 fields of study to help students make more informed decisions when selecting college courses and ultimately a major. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Global Studies E. Gene Frankland, 2001-06 GLOBAL STUDIES is a unique series designed to provide comprehensive background information and selected world press articles on the regions and countries of the world. Each GLOBAL STUDIES volume includes an annotated listing of World Wide Web sites. . Visit our website for more information: . www.dushkin.com/global studies/ . |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Library Journal , 1997 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Europas Töchter Ingrid Miethe, Silke Roth, 2013-07-02 Das Buch bietet eine komparativ angelegte Bestandsaufnahme zu Frauenbewegungen in Europa (EU-Länder, Beitrittsländer, nicht zur EU gehörende Länder) und deren Erwartungen und Befürchtungen mit Blick auf die EU. Im Buch wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Erwartungen europäische Frauenbewegungen an die EU haben, sowohl in den Mitgliedsländern, Beitrittsländern und solchen Ländern, die vorläufig nicht der EU beitreten werden. In den drei einleitenden theoretischen Beiträgen geht es um die Geschichtsschreibung von frauenpolitischem Engagement, zweitens um die Veränderungen von Bürgerrechten im Kontext der EU und drittens um die EU als Gelegenheitsstruktur im Hinblick auf die Durchsetzung von Gendermainstreaming. Im Hauptteil geht es um eine vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme von Frauenbewegungen in Europa. Ausgehend von nationalen und historischen Traditionen von Frauenbewegungen der jeweiligen Länder wird der Bogen zu bisherigen Erfahrungen, Erwartungen und Befürchtungen an die EU aus Frauensicht gezogen. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , 2003 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: War Discourse, Women's Discourse Svetlana Slapšak, 2000 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Frida's Bed Slavenka Drakulić, 2008 This beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo's life explores the inner life of one of the world's most influential female artists. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Estudos de literatura oral , 1999 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Cultural Discourses of Bosnian Identity from the Death of Tito to the Postwar Period Laurel K. Seely, 2010 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Journal of Croatian Studies , 1997 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Ethnologia Balkanica , 2005 Journal for Southeast European anthropology (varies). |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: The Balkan Express Slavenka Drakulic, 1993-05-17 In a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest friends, colleagues, and fellow countrymen--both Serbian and Croatian. Includes five new essays not in the hardcover edition. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Slavic Review , 1999 American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies (varies). |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: American Book Publishing Record , 2003 |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: Homage to Catalonia George Orwell, 2024-04-26 In Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell recounts his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the POUM militia. Orwell provides a firsthand, gritty depiction of the war's complexities, including the internal strife within the Republican factions and the disillusionment that followed the eventual suppression of the anarchist and socialist movements by the Stalinist-backed forces. Orwell's personal reflections offer a stark critique of totalitarianism and the dangers of ideological fanaticism, as well as a poignant exploration of the individual's struggle to maintain integrity and moral clarity in the face of oppressive forces. Homage to Catalonia serves as a testament to the power of firsthand witness and the importance of bearing witness to injustice, even when the truth is inconvenient or uncomfortable. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences. |
| cafe europa life after communism sparknotes: New Books on Women and Feminism , 1998 |
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Oct 3, 2020 · 虽然在一些权威词典中，不带撇的cafe被认为是规范写法，但在现实生活中，很多店铺更偏爱café这种形式。 有人说café是法语单词，可能不太准确。 café这个写法确实来自法 …
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