Consumism și propagandă în romanul istoric românesc din perioada comunistă (I)
Consumerism and Propaganda in Romanian Historical Novel under Communism
This paper is a reflection on the ambiguous status and boundaries of popular historical fiction under communism: on the one hand, it strengthened the glorious image of the national past elaborated by the communist propaganda; on the other hand, it opened an escapist dimension that contributed to the subversion of the “gray” realism the regime approved of as a narrative formula.
Keywords: Romanian novel, historical novel, popular fiction, consumerism, propaganda.
Bloom, Clive. Bestsellers. Popular Fiction Since 1900 (second edition). Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Călinescu, G. The History of the Romanian Literature from its Origins to the Present. Onești: Aristarc Publishing House, 1998.
Cornis-Pope, Marcel. „The Search For a Modern, Problematizing Historical Consciousness: Romanian Historical Fiction and Family Cycles”. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. 499-505.
Djuvara, Neagu. A Brief Illustrated History of The Romanians. București: Humanitas, 2014.
Hites, Sándor. „The Hungarian Historical Novel in Regional Context”. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. 467-479.
Hughes, Helen. The Historical Romance. London / New York: Routledge, 2005.
Lukács, Georg. The Historical Novel (I-II). Bucureşti: Minerva Publishing House, 1978.
Manolescu, Nicolae. The Critical History of Romanian Literature. 5 Centuries of Romanian Literature. Pitești: Paralela 45 Publishing House, 2008.
Manolescu, Ion. Cernat, Paul. Mitchievici, Angelo. Stanomir, Ioan. Explorations in the Romanian Communism (I). Iași: Polirom, 2004.
Manolescu, Ion. Cernat, Paul. Mitchievici, Angelo. Stanomir, Ioan. Explorations in the Romanian Communism (III). Iași: Polirom, 2008.
Maxwell, Richard. The Historical Novel in Europe, 16501950. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Moretti, Franco. Distant Reading. London: Verso, 2013.
Neubauer, John. „The Historical Novel. Introduction”. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Eds. Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. 463-466.
Pillat, Dinu. An Historical-Literary Mosaic. The XXth Century. Bucureşti: Humanitas, 2013.
