„Zaira” – între Acasă și America: identitate și alteritate
”Zaira” - Between Home and America: Identity and Otherness

Summary/Abstract: In the present study, we follow, through the phenomenon of migration and the appeal to affective memory, an extensive effort to recover the past and one’s own identity by the central character of the novel Zaira, written by Cătălin Dorian Florescu, but also to outline some contrasting eras; reality thus becomes a relation to otherness. We see times and eras that forced the protagonist to live the drama of the collapse of her family, together with the war and the establishment of communism, and to survive far from her native places, building a new life in America, among foreigners, always living with the pain of being uprooted and the loss of loved ones, of the love of youth. The past recovered in its subjective side and relieved from the perspective of the passage of time is brought to the readers’ reflection by the return of the protagonist, years later, to her own roots. The novel illustrates, through retrospections and introspections, lost loves, moral values, family and interethnic relations, but above all, the recovery of one’s identity in order to overcome the trauma of exile.

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