Protocronism, dacomanie şi literatură cu tematică geto-dacică în România anilor 1970
Prothocronism, Dacomania, and the Literature on Geto-Dacian subjects in 1970s Romania

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to briefly discuss the historical circumstances which favored both the rapprochement and interweaving between Ceauşescu’s official ideology of national Stalinism and (Pre)Protochronism. One tried to study the (Pre)Protochronism mainly in connection both with 1971 “July Theses”, and the Five-Year Plan bearing in mind Ceauşescu’s radicalized tone regarding the autonomy of art and literature.Subsequently, I shed more light on the way in which Ceauşescu and his RCPideologues suggested the development of Marxist-Leninist revolutionary theory byadding ideological elements of Protochronism. Instead of discussing Socialist Realism,Protochronism, and Postmodernism, perceived by some authors (Florin Mihăilescu, for instance) as postwar official/prominent literary ideologies, I preferred to look only at the 1970s, analysing Protochronism in comparison with its „higher ranking” and official doctrines: Socialist Humanism and Revolutionary Humanism.Last but not least, I examined the relations of the Romanian Italian industrialist Iosif Constantin Drăgan with communist officials and his “thracological” expertise used for reinventing the Ancient past of Romanians. In the end, I analysed the main products of the so-called Literature on Geto-Dacian subjects encouraged by the May 1977 speech of Ceauşescu held at the national conference of Romanian Writers.

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