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Metamorfoze ale discursului critic românesc postdecembrist şi miza identitară
The Metamorphosis of Romanian Critical Discourse after 1989 and its Identity-Oriented Perspective

Author(s): Nicoleta Ifrim
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Fondul Europa
Keywords: national literature; identity voice; cultural complex; critical discourse

Summary/Abstract: After 1989, the Romanian critical discourse enhances two major points of view in coping with the identity issue: on one hand, the revival of such concepts as “national literature”, “national myth”, “Romanian cultural identity”, “Euro-centred Romanian writer” and, on the other, their implacable rejection by focusing on “the complex of identity” which is to emphasize the so-called “inferior/minor/marginal/local” Romanian culture. Within the global Postmodern milieu, the identity voices call for a pattern to select the national values which are to enter the European dialogues

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 65-70
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian