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Negocierea marginalității în politizarea queerness-ului: o viziune glocală asupra prozei românești contemporane queer
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Negotiating marginality in queer politics: a glocal perspective of contemporary Romanian queer prose
Abstract: Situating Romania within the global capitalist world-system starting from 1989 to the present reveals a range of heterogeneous and at times polemical queer positions in relation to contemporary political and economic realities, particularly with regard to the politicization of queerness in connection with the rise and consolidation of neoliberalism in the local context. This article aims to map these positions through a re-examination of a set of prose texts that have received comparatively limited critical attention in contrast to other queer novels already canonized within the Romanian literary establishment: Adrian Schiop’s Zero grade Kelvin [Zero Kelvin Degrees] and pe bune/pe invers [straight/gay], as well as Cristina Nemerovschi’s Sânge Satanic [Satanic Blood] trilogy and Păpușile [The Dolls]. The article analyzes the ways in which this body of queer literature captures the evolving politicization of queerness through the negotiation of the relationship between marginality and the cisheteronormative center of dominant culture, both at the intradiegetic and extradiegetic levels, in relation to the Romanian literary establishment. In this framework, three forms of political marginality can be identified: the marginality of queer characters within the social systems staged by the novels; the marginality of queerness as a thematic and structural concern within the narrative economy of the texts; and the marginality of the texts themselves within the Romanian literary system. These forms of marginality are articulated through a range of heterogeneous political positions, extending from the antisocial turn in queer theory (Lee Edelman) to modes of engagement that are either explicitly politicized or, conversely, performative and depoliticized. Drawing on Lisa Duggan’s concept of homonormativity, the article interrogates the symptomatic character of contemporary Romanian queer literature in relation to the interplay between queer politics and the glocal political and socio-economic contexts in which these narratives are produced.
Keywords: Romanian literature, world-system analysis, semi-periphery, neoliberalism, queer literature
Citation suggestion: Fuioagă, Anastasia. “Negocierea marginalității în politizarea queerness-ului: o viziune glocală asupra prozei românești contemporane queer”. Transilvania, no. 3 (2026): 82-96.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2026.3.09.
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