Snejana Ung
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Snejana Ung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Snejana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ung |
| SIGNATURE | UNG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3184-1980 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Foregrounding nationalism, backgrounding late socialism: The politics of magical realism and postmodernism in (former) Yugoslavia
This article explores the politics of magical realism and postmodernism in (former) Yugoslavia. Although they were introduced during late socialism, the theoretical debates of that period largely focused on their aesthetic aspects. As I aim to demonstrate in this study, a more substantial scholarly interest in the politics of postmodernism and magical realism only emerged in the late 1990s, when the destructive impact of “particular nationalisms”…
A tale of literary devices: From trauma to melotrauma in coming-of-age novels of migration from Bosnia and Romania
Importing and Writing Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Principalities
This article examines the overlooked import and production of tragedy as a literary genre during the long nineteenth-century Romanian literature. It is not that Romanian tragedies had not been written until 1918, but they were not reprinted, and the critics’ interest in these early tragedies diminished considerably over time. Whereas the imports were oriented predominantly towards the Romance-speaking countries and cultures – more than towards th…
In the Literary Neighborhood: The Translated Romanian Novel in (Ex-)Yugoslavia (1918-2020)
This article investigates the literary institutions that facilitate the dissemination of the Romanian novel in (the former) Yugoslavia between 1918 and 2020. My approach consists of a two-fold analysis: quantitative and sociological. While a quantitative
Should I Stay or Should I Move Back? Literary Representations of Emigration to the US in Postcommunist Romanian Literature
This article aims to discuss two literary representations of postcommunist Romanian emigration to the United States, one of the most understudied routes of migration, in sociological and literary studies alike. Relying on Carine M. Mardorossian’s (2002) research, I understand exile and migrant literature not as taxonomic but as paradigmatic categories. As I show, the paradigmatic difference between them plays out at the level of critical represen…
Rethinking Romanian Literature Collectively: The Inter-imperial Modern Novel
The present essay aims at discussing the recent volume Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022) by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă as a significant contribution to the recent attempts at rethinking Romanian literature. In this regard, the examination of the volume is constantly reckoned in dialogue with some of the previously undertaken projects. The dialogic approach highlights two significant aspects, related to both the vol…
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
The Challenges of Writing a National Literary History in the Era of Transnationalism: Insights from a Peripheral Literary Space
It goes without saying that during the nineteenth and twentieth century literary historiography tries to define national identities. However, a methodological and paradigm shift occur at the beginning of the twenty-first century when, under the auspices of globalization and the emergence of world literature and transnational literary studies, literary historiography is re-thought as a collective and transnational project. Yet, the asymmetry of th…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Străinătatea
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents foreign cities, towns, peripheries, and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the planetary perspective of the novels and discusses the birth of the Global South imagery. The search was conducted on a corpus of 700 novels in the MDRR archive. The data is disposed through quantifying recurre…
Crossing Borders: From (Ex-)Yugoslavia to the Whole World
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
The Challenges of Writing a National Literary History in the Era of Transnationalism: Insights from a Peripheral Literary Space
It goes without saying that during the nineteenth and twentieth century literary historiography tries to define national identities. However, a methodological and paradigm shift occur at the beginning of the twenty-first century when, under the auspices of globalization and the emergence of world literature and transnational literary studies, literary historiography is re-thought as a collective and transnational project. Yet, the asymmetry of th…
Should I Stay or Should I Move Back? Literary Representations of Emigration to the US in Postcommunist Romanian Literature
This article aims to discuss two literary representations of postcommunist Romanian emigration to the United States, one of the most understudied routes of migration, in sociological and literary studies alike. Relying on Carine M. Mardorossian’s (2002) research, I understand exile and migrant literature not as taxonomic but as paradigmatic categories. As I show, the paradigmatic difference between them plays out at the level of critical represen…
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Străinătatea
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents foreign cities, towns, peripheries, and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the planetary perspective of the novels and discusses the birth of the Global South imagery. The search was conducted on a corpus of 700 novels in the MDRR archive. The data is disposed through quantifying recurre…
Crossing Borders: From (Ex-)Yugoslavia to the Whole World
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory is an open-access, peer-review, online publication for academic research, published twice a year by the Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania
Educație și școală în romanul românesc (1845-1947)
The article sets out to establish the ways in which the Romanian novelistic production between 1845 and 1947 reflects the challenges and accomplishments of successive efforts at modernising the educational system. Therefore, the case-studies we discuss are focused on some of the major implications of Romanian education: the shifts in the literal spaces in which the educational process is being conducted, the access to books and the social prestig…
The Challenges of Writing a National Literary History in the Era of Transnationalism: Insights from a Peripheral Literary Space
It goes without saying that during the nineteenth and twentieth century literary historiography tries to define national identities. However, a methodological and paradigm shift occur at the beginning of the twenty-first century when, under the auspices of globalization and the emergence of world literature and transnational literary studies, literary historiography is re-thought as a collective and transnational project. Yet, the asymmetry of th…
Geografia romanului românesc (1933-1947): Străinătatea
This article analyzes the ways in which the Romanian novel published between 1933-1947 represents foreign cities, towns, peripheries, and villages in the fictional worlds. It asserts the democratization of the narrative universe through the planetary perspective of the novels and discusses the birth of the Global South imagery. The search was conducted on a corpus of 700 novels in the MDRR archive. The data is disposed through quantifying recurre…
Rethinking Romanian Literature Collectively: The Inter-imperial Modern Novel
The present essay aims at discussing the recent volume Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires (2022) by Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă as a significant contribution to the recent attempts at rethinking Romanian literature. In this regard, the examination of the volume is constantly reckoned in dialogue with some of the previously undertaken projects. The dialogic approach highlights two significant aspects, related to both the vol…
In the Literary Neighborhood: The Translated Romanian Novel in (Ex-)Yugoslavia (1918-2020)
This article investigates the literary institutions that facilitate the dissemination of the Romanian novel in (the former) Yugoslavia between 1918 and 2020. My approach consists of a two-fold analysis: quantitative and sociological. While a quantitative
Should I Stay or Should I Move Back? Literary Representations of Emigration to the US in Postcommunist Romanian Literature
This article aims to discuss two literary representations of postcommunist Romanian emigration to the United States, one of the most understudied routes of migration, in sociological and literary studies alike. Relying on Carine M. Mardorossian’s (2002) research, I understand exile and migrant literature not as taxonomic but as paradigmatic categories. As I show, the paradigmatic difference between them plays out at the level of critical represen…
Importing and Writing Tragedy in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Principalities
This article examines the overlooked import and production of tragedy as a literary genre during the long nineteenth-century Romanian literature. It is not that Romanian tragedies had not been written until 1918, but they were not reprinted, and the critics’ interest in these early tragedies diminished considerably over time. Whereas the imports were oriented predominantly towards the Romance-speaking countries and cultures – more than towards th…
Foregrounding nationalism, backgrounding late socialism: The politics of magical realism and postmodernism in (former) Yugoslavia
This article explores the politics of magical realism and postmodernism in (former) Yugoslavia. Although they were introduced during late socialism, the theoretical debates of that period largely focused on their aesthetic aspects. As I aim to demonstrate in this study, a more substantial scholarly interest in the politics of postmodernism and magical realism only emerged in the late 1990s, when the destructive impact of “particular nationalisms”…
A tale of literary devices: From trauma to melotrauma in coming-of-age novels of migration from Bosnia and Romania
Political science (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Romanian (7 works) · European Cultural and National Identity (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)