Literary Cartographies of Timişoara
Literary Cartographies of Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: Reading the text has been a form of reading the city¸ said Richard Lehan in his study, The City in Literature. An Intellectual and Cultural History. The literature written in the last hundred years in Timișoara reveals various literary cartographies of this marginocentric cultural node of Central Europe. Its history reveals its multicultural dimension: Timișoara and the Banat region came successively under the Turkish (1552-1718), Austrian (1718-1778), Hungarian (1778-1849), Austrian (1849-1867) and Dual Monarchy control ( 1867-1919), before becoming part of Romania in 1919. Under these historical circumstances, several cultural directions interplayed in this area, creating a sort of melting pot in which the concept of identity redefined itself by following the rules of intercultural communication. Several writers who were born here or who came to see and to live in this city after 1919 reveal other sides of it by mapping its reality in very subjective perspectives which complete the historical view.

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