Narrativity and Legitimation in the Discourse of the Communist Archives: Analysing the Files of “The Burning
Bush Organization”
Narrativity and Legitimation in the Discourse of the Communist Archives: Analysing the Files of “The Burning
Bush Organization”
Author(s): Ioana-Zoia Sandu (Ursu)Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Zeta Books
Keywords: discourse analysis; archives of communism; religious repression
Summary/Abstract: Our paper proposes to follow the history of the “Burning Bush”, a spiritual and cultural movement in the 1940s in Romania that had proposed the solution of spiritual resistance to communism through culture and faith. The analysis holds as key-concepts: discourse analysis, narrativity, semantics and hermeneutics, following the discourse of the Securitate’s archives with reference to the Burning Bush in terms of: - conflictual discourses: inquisitor vs. imprisoned; - motives and themes of the incriminatory discourse of the Securitate; - the existence of a master narrative of the archives.
Journal: History of Communism in Europe
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 155-167
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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