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The first decade of the 21st century ended with a wide crisis that forced the majority of the world governments to redefine their approaches and, at the same time, consecrated a series of mutations with respect to the balance of powers at the world level, which can be exemplified through different facts, such as: the acknowledgement of China’s statute as the second economic power in the world, the massive involvement of the International Monetary Fund in saving certain European Union member states or the granting, for the first time in history, by the Standard & Poor’s rating agency of a negative score for the economic perspectives of the United States of America.
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.
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