De la condiţia scriitorului e(i)migrant la imaginea e(i)migrantului în creaţia lui Andrei Codrescu
From the Emigrant/Immigrant Condition of the Author to the Literary Representation of the Emigrants/Immigrants in Codrescu’s Creation

Summary/Abstract: Andrei Codrescu left Romania for America in his youth to follow a dream – that of meeting his idol, Mircea Eliade. Loosing the idolised promised land of the man Eliade after becoming aware of the association between Eliade’s name and the anti-Jewish Romanian movement of “Garda de fier”, with the fresh memories of the fear and danger of being a Jew in Romania of those years, Codrescu discovers the American promised land of any dream becoming true. Starting from the social status of an immigrant, Codrescu mingles in different American cultural movements or tendencies and grows up as an appreciated cultural personality in his adoptive country. But he never forgets his native country with its ancestral influences in his cultural becoming. The first part of our paper aims to depict the cultural evolutionary road of the writer, basing our interpretation on the essays and confessional literature of the author. We also intend to show the dilemma of the creation language for the immigrant writer and the way Codrescu manages to overcome it. This part includes a discussion around the terms emigrant and immigrant in the multicultural context, seen as a reality of our time in different fields of research and also presented from the Codrescu’s point of view and personal American experience. Dissociation is made in our presentation around the term of multiculturalism in the American context and into the European context and how the existing differences in the perception of the term left their mark on Codrescu’s cultural evolution. A second part of our paper is presenting the way Codrescu approaches the immigrant term and its significance in his creation.

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