Andreea Mironescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3444797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreea Mironescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreea |
| FAMILY NAME | Mironescu |
| SIGNATURE | MIRONESCU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Alexandru Ioan Cuza University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9454-8792 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Born in Moldova’
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Our paper explores how music acts as a soft power element in the process of post-Soviet decolonization in the Republic of Moldova after its 1991 declaration of independence. While the (post)colonial status of Moldova and other former Soviet republics is still under debate, we found the concept of ‘inter-imperiality’ (Laura Doyle; Parvulescu and Boatcă) more appropriate.…
Dialogic practices and unexpected mnemonic solidarities in (post-)transitional poetry from Romania
This article analyzes the multilayered functions of poetic discourse—the literary, the social, and the mnemonic—using contemporary Romanian poetry as a case study. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s understanding of literary dialogism, we engage with the concept of dialogic remembering by paying attention first and foremost to its discursive (pre)condition, and further explore how polyphonic textual practices in poetry can give voice to, enact, and sti…
Queer autofiction as reparative practice
Zooming in on a postsocialist piece of queer autofiction, namely the 2022 novel Dezrădăcinare (Uprootedness) penned by the Moldovan-Romanian female author Sașa Zare, this article analyzes the role of self-writing as reparative practice operating on textual and extratextual levels. Instead of engaging directly with queer theory and performing a close reading of Zare’s work, we opted for “queering” the various contexts that labeled the book: histor…
Memorability of Romanian dissidence
The article explores the conditions necessary for a narrative recounting of past events to become memorable and incorporated into collective memory. The analysis is focused on the role played by artistic remediations in creating such memorability. In Romania, as well as in other East Central European countries, the production of memorability and the management of the resulting collective memories are interlinked with the narratives of communism t…
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
The regional dynamics of multilingual publishing in web of science
Maximalist Autofiction, Surrealism and Late Socialism in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid
This article studies the fictionalization of late Eastern-European socialism in contemporary Romania, namely the literary projection of the 1980s in Mircea Cărtărescu’s autofictional novel Solenoid (2015). The novel is an ample, paranoid, metaphysical, and counterfactual autobiography that uses a late-communist backdrop to create a metaphorically skewed representation of the self and the world. In order to describe this narrative structure as an …
The Novel of Memory as World Genre. Exploring the Romanian Case
The novel of memory is a subgenre with an impressive spatial and cultural range: it manifested itself in numerous countries in all parts of the world, and it emerged only some four decades ago.However, its existence remains troubling in many respects: it was theorized in the academia before being canonized in the national literary histories.Moreover, it thrived in the discourse of recent cultural studies, rather than in that of literary studies.W…
Poetics and politics of remembering childhood in Romanian post-communist fiction
The authors explore the representations of the child and childhood which emerged in post-communist Romania, with a clear focus on literary works. The paper proposes a triadic typology of literary remembrance by distinguishing between the allegorical, experiential, and metamodern modes of remembering childhood. They also assess the political implications of Romanian post-communist writers’ strategy of revisiting a troubled past from the child’s pe…
Quiet Voices, Faded Photographs
Drawing on concepts such as post-genocide literature, post memory (Marianne Hirsch), and resonance (Aleida Assmann), this paper discusses a third-generation narrative of the Armenian genocide, namely Varujan Vosganian’s novel The Book of Whispers, originally published in Romania in 2009. The first section of the paper examines whether the concepts of post-genocide literature and diasporic literature (Peeromian) can be applied to authors of Armeni…
The Novel of Memory as World Genre. Exploring the Romanian Case
The novel of memory is a subgenre with an impressive spatial and cultural range: it manifested itself in numerous countries in all parts of the world, and it emerged only some four decades ago.However, its existence remains troubling in many respects: it was theorized in the academia before being canonized in the national literary histories.Moreover, it thrived in the discourse of recent cultural studies, rather than in that of literary studies.W…
Poetics and politics of remembering childhood in Romanian post-communist fiction
The authors explore the representations of the child and childhood which emerged in post-communist Romania, with a clear focus on literary works. The paper proposes a triadic typology of literary remembrance by distinguishing between the allegorical, experiential, and metamodern modes of remembering childhood. They also assess the political implications of Romanian post-communist writers’ strategy of revisiting a troubled past from the child’s pe…
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
Quiet Voices, Faded Photographs
Drawing on concepts such as post-genocide literature, post memory (Marianne Hirsch), and resonance (Aleida Assmann), this paper discusses a third-generation narrative of the Armenian genocide, namely Varujan Vosganian’s novel The Book of Whispers, originally published in Romania in 2009. The first section of the paper examines whether the concepts of post-genocide literature and diasporic literature (Peeromian) can be applied to authors of Armeni…
Poetics and politics of remembering childhood in Romanian post-communist fiction
The authors explore the representations of the child and childhood which emerged in post-communist Romania, with a clear focus on literary works. The paper proposes a triadic typology of literary remembrance by distinguishing between the allegorical, experiential, and metamodern modes of remembering childhood. They also assess the political implications of Romanian post-communist writers’ strategy of revisiting a troubled past from the child’s pe…
Maximalist Autofiction, Surrealism and Late Socialism in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid
This article studies the fictionalization of late Eastern-European socialism in contemporary Romania, namely the literary projection of the 1980s in Mircea Cărtărescu’s autofictional novel Solenoid (2015). The novel is an ample, paranoid, metaphysical, and counterfactual autobiography that uses a late-communist backdrop to create a metaphorically skewed representation of the self and the world. In order to describe this narrative structure as an …
The Novel of Memory as World Genre. Exploring the Romanian Case
The novel of memory is a subgenre with an impressive spatial and cultural range: it manifested itself in numerous countries in all parts of the world, and it emerged only some four decades ago.However, its existence remains troubling in many respects: it was theorized in the academia before being canonized in the national literary histories.Moreover, it thrived in the discourse of recent cultural studies, rather than in that of literary studies.W…
The regional dynamics of multilingual publishing in web of science
Memorability of Romanian dissidence
The article explores the conditions necessary for a narrative recounting of past events to become memorable and incorporated into collective memory. The analysis is focused on the role played by artistic remediations in creating such memorability. In Romania, as well as in other East Central European countries, the production of memorability and the management of the resulting collective memories are interlinked with the narratives of communism t…
Romanele memoriei
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on its forms and dynamics in post-communist Romania. Drawing on a corpus of over 200 novels published in …
Dialogic practices and unexpected mnemonic solidarities in (post-)transitional poetry from Romania
This article analyzes the multilayered functions of poetic discourse—the literary, the social, and the mnemonic—using contemporary Romanian poetry as a case study. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s understanding of literary dialogism, we engage with the concept of dialogic remembering by paying attention first and foremost to its discursive (pre)condition, and further explore how polyphonic textual practices in poetry can give voice to, enact, and sti…
Queer autofiction as reparative practice
Zooming in on a postsocialist piece of queer autofiction, namely the 2022 novel Dezrădăcinare (Uprootedness) penned by the Moldovan-Romanian female author Sașa Zare, this article analyzes the role of self-writing as reparative practice operating on textual and extratextual levels. Instead of engaging directly with queer theory and performing a close reading of Zare’s work, we opted for “queering” the various contexts that labeled the book: histor…
‘Born in Moldova’
This is an accepted article with a DOI pre-assigned that is not yet published.Our paper explores how music acts as a soft power element in the process of post-Soviet decolonization in the Republic of Moldova after its 1991 declaration of independence. While the (post)colonial status of Moldova and other former Soviet republics is still under debate, we found the concept of ‘inter-imperiality’ (Laura Doyle; Parvulescu and Boatcă) more appropriate.…
Art (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Romanian (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Communism (3 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)