Imperii și ecouri: literatura română în vortexul interimperial
Rezumat
Empires and Echoes: Romanian Literature in the Interimperial Vortex
Abstract: This study aims to analyze the differences in reception between Western and Romanian academia regarding the study Creolizing the Modern by Manuela Boatcă and Anca Parvulescu, a work that brings together the approaches of inter-imperial studies (Laura Doyle) with world-system analysis, a productive aspect for recent literary studies using the Wallersteinian grid. The volume has had a significant impact in Western academic circles, being reviewed in several publications, but has received little attention in Romanian academic circles, with the exception of the issue dedicated to it in the journal Transilvania. In a similar way, both Manuela Boatcă’s doctoral thesis (which, although in the sociological sphere, starts from Maiorescu) and the volume Laboratories of Modernity (which problematizes the political conception of Maiorescu and Eminescu) have remained neglected. This phenomenon indicates a certain “resistance” of Romanian academia to sociological and interdisciplinary approaches, partly due to a long tradition of literary autonomism. The aim of this paper is to highlight this tension between the sociological perspective and the tradition of literary autonomism and to explore the reasons why approaches investigating the intersection of social factors, ideology, economics and politics are not well received in Romanian literary studies, but at the same time enjoy recognition in the West, while pointing out contributions from the Romanian area that depart from the theorists’ project or apply the inter-imperial grid in a distinct manner.
Key-words: inter-imperiality, postcolonial studies, semi-peripherality, western reception
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