Literatur und Politik in Moldova
Literature and Politics in Moldova

Summary/Abstract: The central question of the analysis refers to the part and function of authors since the years of Perestrojka in the political life of the former Moldavian Soviet Republic, the Moldova of today. The following issues are dealt with herein: The decisive contribution of the authors' commitment to put through the national concern of the Rumanian-speaking majority of the population in 1988-1991; the critical retrospect on literature under the Soviet regime; the controversial thesis of its "Moldovenism", i.e. its characteristic regionalism and autochthonism as a latent opposition during the era before 1989; the tradition of an indigenous regional literature, dated back to the time between 1918 and 1940, when Bessarabia belonged to Rumania; the polarity of pro-Rumanian, unionistic and anti-Rumanian, independent Moldovenism in the present time; the splitting of the pro-Rumanian intellectuals in the conservative-nationalistic circle around the magazine »Literatura şi arta« and the postmodern, pro-European direction of the "Eighties", whose organ is the magazine »Contrafort«.

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