IDENTITATEA, BUNUL-SIMȚ ȘI SIMȚUL UMORULUI
IDENTITY, COMMON SENSE AND THE SENSE OF HUMOUR

Summary/Abstract: The present work puts forward an updated reading of an interwar play, one of the most popular theatrical performances on Romanian stages, even if this play is not necessarily one of the masterpieces of our interwar theater - Victor Ion Popa's Take, Ianke and Cadîr. The plot revolves around the issue of inter-ethnical and interreligious marriage. Using the newest conceptual tools of present-day philosophy (in the books of Kwame Anthony Appiah), focused on the psychology of identity, the study aims to follow the deconstruction of all the idiosyncrasies and stereotypes that may appear around the identity problem. This deconstruction is undertaken by the playwright Victor Ion Popa with artistic means and in a deeply humanistic spirit. Take and Ianke's vehemence diminishes comically as the play unfolds, melting at the temperature of parental love and demonstrating how the boundaries of the group – in Appiah's terms – become more and more flexible, wider, outlining an overarching identity that accommodates them all.

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