Acasă Articole RTR Cosmopolitism periferic: un studiu asupra conștiinței periferice în proza basarabeană contemporană
Cosmopolitism periferic: un studiu asupra conștiinței periferice în proza basarabeană contemporană
Rezumat
Peripheral Cosmopolitanism: A Study of The Peripheral Counscience in Contemporary Bessarabian Prose
Abstract: The concept of cosmopolitanism is a political, moral and cultural concept that emerged with the age of globalization but became more visible with the tragedy of September 11, 2001. In a capitalist world where transnational connections are increasingly important, it becomes pivotal not only to be aware of the other and of planetary diversity, but also to try to understand and even empathize with the rest of the cultures. This desire to be recognized is usually directed from the peripheries and semi-peripheries towards the centers. This article aims to analyze how this concept can be applied to the Romanian-language Bessarabian literature, a literature that has always, in the 20th and 21st centuries, been part of the cosmopolitanism of another literature (the Soviet and the Romanian one, respectively). The terminology proposed by Pnina Werbner, namely the term vernacular cosmopolitanism, will be used in order to distance this field from the Western gaze that looks with empathy at underdeveloped cultures and to help emphasize the inter-peripheral dialogues. First, the post-1991 critical discourse in both Bessarabia and Romania will be analyzed, how some Moldavian critics seek integration into Romanian literature without differentiation, and the response of Romanian critics and scholars. In the second part, the discussion is focus on contemporary Bessarabian literature, with a case study on Tatiana Țîbuleac and Vasile Ernu, in order to follow how they manage to build a “localized” cosmopolitanism, and are able to translate the local for the global due to the initial desire to be received by a country in a semi-peripheral position, namely Romania.
Keywords: Bessarabian literature, peripheral cosmopolitanism, transnationality, vernacular comsopolitanism, unequal development
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