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HARPER REGAN - A FEMALE PROTAGONIST’S FLIGHT FROM PERSONAL CATASTROPHE: HER VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY AND RETURN TO REDEMPTION

Author(s): Hildegard Klein / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

This article analyses a woman’s personal tragedy and her flight from home as a consequence of disquieting problems in her family. On her journey she has a series of crucial encounters which can be seen as a turning point in her life, contributing to her learning process towards a wiser perception of the human psyche. At the same time, the play provides glimpses of a social malaise existing in English society.

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TRAVELLING WITH WOLLSTONECRAFT: LETTERS FROM SCANDINAVIA

Author(s): Colomba La Ragione / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

In her Letters from Scandinavia, Mary Wollstonecraft gives an account of her journey which is a metaphor for a creative and critical process. Her journey is not only an itinerary but also a series of unexpected events; in going to Scandinavia Mary chose a particular kind of travelling full of questions, which mask achievable, but at the same time unreachable destinations.

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MADNESS AND MARGINALITY IN PATRICIA DUNCKER’S HALLUCINATING FOUCAULT

Author(s): Andrea Kriston / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The goal of this paper is to make an incursion into Paul Michel’s (fictional schizophrenic writer) brain, trying to decipher the cause of his insanity and his homosexuality. The story described oscillates between Michel the novelist and his Reader and Muse, Foucault, who swaps places with another Reader, the young scholar.

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WOMEN’S WORK- A GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Author(s): Remina Sima / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The paper deals with the description of two main concepts – the public and the private sphere. I shall also focus on work and education as links between the two areas. The binary tradition/nontradition is also taken into account so as to exemplify specific features of the issues under discussion.

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WE MUST BE DISPLACED TO BE REPLACED: ISSUES OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISPLACEMENT AND INTERIOR EXILE

Author(s): Eleonora Olivia Bălănescu / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The notion of displacement, be it conceived psychologically, culturally or geographically, places individuals in general and women in particular in a position of exteriority, outside the main discourse of the centre. Considering the close link between gender and space, the paper discusses issues of gender and geographical marginality/exile in Kiran Desai’s novel The Inheritance of Loss.

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AUTHENTICITY vs SIMULATION IN PEDRO ALMODÓVAR’S ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER

Author(s): Eleonora Olivia Bălănescu / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

In an era in which flesh harmonises with silicone, the masculine turns into feminine, the families consists of two women or two men, and life mingles with performance, it becomes increasingly difficult to separate the original, the real from the created or the counterfeit. In this context, the aim of this paper is to analyse the intricate nature of the authentic in Pedro Almodóvar’s film All about My Mother.

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A DANDY DISMISSION OF THE NATURAL AND PURE IN BYRON’S DON JUAN

Author(s): Roxana Diana Cruceanu / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

To demonstrate that even a poet of nature like Byron can dismiss the natural, the focus of the present analysis will be on the Haidée episode, where the only creature of the wild in Don Juan will be gradually turned from an inartificial innocent into a made-up harlot by Byron’s dandyism. The defeat of pure Aurora in favour of the more refined and stylized Fitz-Fulke will be also discussed, as well as the matter of nature’s provocations which can bring about the worst in the human being.

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AMANDA CROSS AND “THE QUESTION OF MAX”

Author(s): Richard R. E. Kania / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

Carolyn Heilbrun, writing as Amanda Cross, had written four mystery novels prior to The Question of Max in 1976. Perhaps secure in her success, Heilbrun became politically strident and partisan in this novel, starting a trend enduring in her later novels. Her villains thereafter often were her more "politically incorrect" characters. Her novels remained entertaining but her ideological bias became quite obvious. Thus her later fiction should be understood in terms of its political posturing on social issues of interest to her, with gender issues being high among these.

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AVATARS OF FEMININITY: AGEISM, MASKS AND ALL THINGS STEREOTYPICAL

Author(s): Anemona Alb / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

This paper sets out to identify shift in terms of paradigms and stereotypes of femininity in two chick lit novels. More specifically, the vacillation that the female characters in these two novels undergo in terms of self-location on the yuppie-housewife continuum constitutes the focus of this study.

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LONDON, THE OCCIDENTALIST ‘CITY OF MAN’ IN DIRTY PRETTY THINGS AND ISLAND OF HOPE

Author(s): Catherine MacMillan,Adriana Răducanu / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The paper examines the depiction of London in two films, the British Dirty Pretty Things and the Turkish Island of Hope, from an Occidentalist approach. It argues that the metropolis acts as a corrupting influence on the immigrant heroes and heroines, turning them from ‘virgins’ into ‘whores’.

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JACQUELINE AND MICHELLE: WHITE HOUSE WIVES

Author(s): Andreea Pele,Ramona Bran / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The paper sets out to discuss the ways in which these two First Ladies have been represented in the American press. The focus is on style, formal roles, as well as on their carefully crafted public image as mothers and wives.

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GENDERED POLITICAL DISCOURSE – HOW WOMEN FIND THEIR WAY IN THE PENALTY AREA OF THE POLITICAL BATTLEFIELD

Author(s): Biljana B. Radić-Bojanić / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The article is set within the frameworks of Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis and deals with the gendering of political discourse in Serbia manifested through the pervasiveness of SPORT and WAR metaphors in today’s political language as used by politicians themselves as well as by newspaper reporters as the main mediators between the political parties and voters, in a way that supports hegemonic masculinity and discourages women from participating in political life.

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A CRITICAL DISTANCE

Author(s): Alice Bailey Cheylan / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

After achieving literary success in the United States, Edith Wharton moved to France in 1913. This newly acquired physical distance from her homeland also gave her a critical distance. A short study of Wharton’s portrayal of Americans living abroad with their cultural differences and generation gaps, and an analysis of their language difficulties and communication problems in The Children will reveal the influence of her adopted culture on her perception of American society.

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TRAGIC-COMIC TWIST: DAUGHTERS AS MOTHERS

Author(s): Meryem Ayan / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

In Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, classified as melodrama but conveying tragic features, and in Neil Simon’s comic play The Gingerbread Lady, the relationships between mothers and daughters progress in a tragic-comic twist because daughters behave as mothers and the mothers as daughters. Regarding genre and role changes the traditional genre and typical mother-daughter and family relations have been corrupted in both plays.

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ADVERTISEMENTS IN PUBLIC TOILETS: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PROMOTIONAL DISCOURSE ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN TORONTO AND NOVI SAD

Author(s): Senka Gavranov / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

The research focuses on reproductive health in advertisement discourse and its assumed ideological narratives about female genitalia and sexuality, which work beneath the seemingly gender-neutral surface forms. The paper bases its conclusions on the comparative analysis of toilet advertisements at food courts in a university campus in Toronto, Canada, and cafes frequented by youth in Novi Sad, Serbia. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data is informed by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

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RE-CONCEPTUALIZATION OF RACE AND AGENCY IN JAMAICA KINCAID ‘S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER

Author(s): Izabella Penier / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has produced many of her bestsellers by dissecting her personal and familial history. Yet in spite of her inclination to anchor the life of her creative inventions in her personal and intimate experience, Kincaid, known for her radicalism and militancy, can be a fiercely political writer. The aim of this essay is to explore how Kincaid handles the trope of race in her novel The Autobiography of My Mother, how she uses racial imagery to unearth the covert mechanisms that account for the intricacies of identity formation and how she dismantles ideological foundations that paved the way for racial exploitation. I will in particular focus on how Kincaid challenges, undermines and recasts the (post)colonial concept of race by showing that racial identity is a shifting category conceived through interaction with other categories of identification such as class and gender.

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OUR BODIES, THEIR PROFESSION. GENDER IN THE MEDICAL DISCOURSE

Author(s): Mária Bajner / Language(s): English Issue: 09/2010

This paper aims at the issue of interpersonal interactions in health care settings. The focus is on the communicative implications of the most prevalent gender patterns between doctors and patients at the doctor’s surgery online and offline. The linking of the female role to the patient is highlighted together with the professional expectations from doctors within the framework of social and cultural values.

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Aşa e în România

Author(s): George Vulcănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 511/2003

George Vulcănescu writes a personal story about Romania and more precise about some of the Romanians. He does not try to create an anthropological study, but a particular case, representative for some bad mentalities. The journalist simply wants not to hide all the time behind some words like “this is Romania, you can’t change a thing”.

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Afganistanul şi afganii

Author(s): Magdalena Boiangiu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 511/2003

Magdalena Boiangiu writes about Afghanistan and the Afghans, as they are after the war and such a long period of agony. She suggests that the representatives of the Europe and USA ask for more domestic cooperation, while they don’t understand too much of the local mentalities and traditions.

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Chipul României

Author(s): Sever Voinescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 511/2003

Sever Voinescu makes an essay about the new “portrait of Romania”. In this very moment, at 13 years since the Revolution in 1989, the Romanians have poles apart interests and opinions, political preferences and personal problems. The author suggests that this is a better Romania, then a bipolar one.

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