O nouă perspectivă asupra literaturii române din perioada postcomunistă. Mihai Iovănel, Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990–2020
A New Perspective on Romanian Post-Communist Literature. Mihai Iovănel, History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990–2020
Author(s): Olga Bartosiewicz-NikolaevSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Book-Review, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: ideology; literary historiography; transnationalism; Romanian literature; literary history; contemporary literature; literary canon;
Summary/Abstract: The article addresses Mihai Iovănel’s 2021 History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990–2020, the first history of Romanian literature that presents the development of Romanian post-communist prose and poetry. Iovănel’s book sparked a heated debate among literary critics, historians and writers, because it discusses and redefines prevalent concepts in Romanian literary theory and criticism, focusing on the extraliterary (political, social, economic) conditioning of literary production and inscribing Romanian literature into the system of transnational literary interactions. The paper shows thus the most important assumptions of Iovănel’s work and discusses the critical reception of the volume among Romanian intellectuals.
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 22/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 121-128
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian