Requiem for communism
By: Charity Scribner.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Communism and art -- Europe; Socialism and art -- Europe; Post-communism -- Europe; Arts, European -- 20th century; Arts -- Political aspects -- Europe; Nostalgia in art; Europe -- Intellectual life
Description: "In Requiem for Communism Charity Scribner examines the politics of memory in postindustrial literature and art. Writers and artists from Europe's second world have responded to the last socialist crisis with works that range from sober description to melancholic fixation. This book is the first survey of this cultural field."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-223) and index.