IMMIGRATION AS A CULTURAL INVESTMENT
IMMIGRATION AS A CULTURAL INVESTMENT

Summary/Abstract: The paper will focus on the “double bind” of the recognition of immigrant writers and artistes in their new home/language: the specific insertion of the voice of the writer as an exotic object of cultural consumption in the hosting linguistic and cultural environment, on one hand, and the mythology of the “success” of the expat in the linguistic and cultural country of origin, on the other hand. We will try to exemplify the strange balance of perception and re-appropriation of the immigrant’s works, by means of translations or re-writings, using examples offered by some Romanian famous writers of the last century, such as Eugene Ionesco, Benjamin Fondane, E.M. Cioran and, of course, Matei Visniec. The method of this kind of analysis will found on contextual and comparative analysis of the two specific cultural spaces in the specific period of insertion and re-insertion, from political, social and aesthetical points of view.

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