Literatura română și basarabeană în dialog interperiferic: circulația modelului literar basarabean
Iulia Maria VÎRBAN
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Babeș Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
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Studii literare
Romanian and Bessarabian Literature in Interperipheral Dialog: The Circulation of the Bessarabian Literary Model
Abstract: This article explores the inter-peripheral relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova, focusing on two aspects: a sociological perspective and a literary analysis of four Bessarabian authors—Vasile Ernu, Iulian Ciocan, Liliana Corobca, and Tatiana Țîbuleac. Sociologically, I examine how institutions like the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) increase Bessarabia’s visibility and reduce its peripheral status by promoting its literature in transnational fields. Also, the internationalization of Bessarabian literature is seen in the alignment of Moldovan prose with Romanian literary trends, particularly in the tension between memory-focused and “presentist” novels. This process involves both identification with post-2000 Romanian literary changes and an exoticization linked to the authors’ Soviet, Russophile aesthetics, clearly reflected in their narratives, and this topic will be the focus of the article’s second part.
Keywords: Bessarabian Literature, World Literature, export, the centre-periphery relationship, interperipheral dialog
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