Rolul povestirii în construirea spaţiului identitar
The Role of the Narrative in the Construction of Identity Space

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian communities from the Hungarian Plain form a number of peripheral compact groups, which have maintained their identity features after 1920 mainly because their closed character. In an area that is well-defined geographically and spiritually, these islands with specific identity – hereafter referred to as identity areas – became at present extremely vulnerable. The aim of this work is to present the way in which the Romanians from Hungary define their own identity area, and how this is reflected in folk stories told by contemporary story-tellers. The stories are based on the presentation of some local heroes related to the establishment of their settlements, anti-heroes with unusual behavior, or through description of everyday aspects of family life. Most of the stories are memorised elements of oral history of the economic and social conditions of those days. The real value of these stories derives from the fact that they are – still – “alive”, transmitted in the local dialect of the Romanian language, thus strengthening the cohesion between the members of the group.

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