Rethinking Romanian Literature Collectively: The Inter-imperial Modern Novel
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Rethinking Romanian Literature Collectively: The Inter-imperial Modern Novel
Abstract: The present essay aims at discussing the recent volume Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022) by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă as a significant contribution to the recent attempts at rethinking Romanian literature. In this regard, the examination of the volume is constantly reckoned in dialogue with some of the previously undertaken projects. The dialogic approach highlights two significant aspects, related to both the volume and the context in which it is received. On the one hand, it shows that the theoretical and methodological framework deployed in the volume can constitute the ground for future studies. On the other hand, it draws attention to the fact the rethinking of Romanian literature has been a collective and gradual endeavor.
Keywords: inter-imperiality, Transylvania, modern/ modernity, world literature, Romanian literature.
Citation suggestion: Ung, Snejana. “Rethinking Romanian Literature Collectively: The Inter-imperial Modern Novel.” Transilvania, no. 10 (2022): 55-61. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2022.10.07.
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