Literatura română în rețeaua literaturii lumii
“Romanian Literature in the Network of World Literature” Round Table

Summary/Abstract: On May 22nd, 2018, a round table was organized at the Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, by the “A. Philippide” Institute of Romanian Philology, the “A. Philippide” Cultural Association and the Department of Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences and Humanities at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University” of Iași. The aim of the event was to review the challenges and opportunities presented by the space and planetary turn in literary studies to specialists of Romanian literature. The debate brought together the editors of the recently issued Romanian Literature as World Literature (New York, Bloomsbury, 2017), namely professors Mircea Martin, Andrei Terian, and, through a recorded statement, Christian Moraru, with two of the contributors to the volume, Bogdan Crețu and Doris Mironescu, and two respected specialists of comparative literature from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University in Iași, professors Alexandru Călinescu and Andrei Corbea-Hoișie. The round table reunited researchers from different generations, literary historians and comparatists, specialising in Romanian, German, French and American literature, with the intention to put into contact their perspectives on the present and the future of Romanian literary studies. In a series of exchanges, the participants drew on the moments, authors or texts where Romanian literature opened up to the idea of a wider culture, on the profile of Romanian literature as a world literature, sometimes referring to the solutions or the limitations envisaged in the volume presented. Also, the discussion focussed on the possibility and legitimacy of charting regional and transnational literary and cultural networks and on Romanian literature’s availability for integration in such networks. The thematic discussion was completed by a methodological concern that reflected on both the canonical design of Romanian literature, and on the authoritative discourses in the autochtonous tradition of literary history as a discipline.

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