Postcolonial Readings of Romanian Identity Narratives
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ISBN-13:
9783631661758
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
11.06.2015
Seiten:
190
Autor:
Onoriu Col¿cel
Gewicht:
365 g
Format:
216x153x15 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The book offers a view of national self-identification in the literary culture of twentieth century Romania with a special focus on the postcolonial paradigm. Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country's past and the colonial past goes unmentioned in the country's historiography and popular culture. However, the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national self-identification in modern Romanian culture. The author analyses how Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania and later Romanian historical fiction establish notions such as hybridity and cultural overlap as conducive to the making of modern Romanian culture.
Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country's past. Yet the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national self-identification in modern Romanian culture. Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania and Romanian historical fiction expound on the postcolonial and adversarial rhetoric of Romanian colonial history.
Contents: Romanian Quest for Identity - Nationalism and Literary Image Studies - Postcolonialism and Modern Romanian Literary Culture - Adversarial Worldview - Language of Indictment - The Ethnonym in Romanian Self-identification - English-written Self-identification - Westernization as a Culture-Bound Narrative.
Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country's past. Yet the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national self-identification in modern Romanian culture. Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania and Romanian historical fiction expound on the postcolonial and adversarial rhetoric of Romanian colonial history.