Ioana Luca
Biographic Data
| ID | 770900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ioana Luca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ioana |
| FAMILY NAME | Luca |
| SIGNATURE | LUCA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2041-4716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diasporic Frames of Remembering Post/Socialism: Global Intersections
How do memories of post/socialism travel and acquire global relevance today? This article examines Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (2021) to argue that 1.5-generation diasporic life writing – narratives by those who experienced the collapse of socialism as children – unmoors these histories from their Cold War confines. Treating memoir as “social action”, I analyse how Ypi translates Albanian state socialism and the 1990s tran…
Burning Alive: The Year in Romania
Between Inter-Imperial Pasts and the Neoliberal Present: The Year in Romania
Between Inter-Imperial Pasts and the Neoliberal PresentThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Sălbaticii copii dingo: Cartea adolescenței, published in 2021, is the latest installment in Vasile Ernu's serial autobiographical project. A compulsive chronicler of his past, Ernu is a unique voice in Romanian culture. Born in Odesa, Ukraine, and raised in the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in a religious sectarian family, he came to Romania …
Introduction: The Cultures Of Global Post/Socialisms
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
Transnationalizing Memories of Post/Socialism: Diasporic Graphic Lives
The article focuses on The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sís, 2007) and Marzi (Sylvain Savoia and Marzena Sowa, 2004–2017), two widely translated autobiographical comics written in English and French, respectively, as an entry point into the afterlives of European state socialisms in global contexts. The author examines how Sís, a Czech-born illustrator and children book author, who defected to the United States, and Sowa, a Pol…
The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. Claudia Sadowski-Smith
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study brings to the map of American literature and American studies the post-Soviet migration to the United States and its cultural representations. Claudia Sadowski-Smith examines migration from the former Soviet Union and its successor nations (the ninth largest migration in the United States, according to the 2010 census) with an eye to all its complexities and intricate social, historical, legal, economic, …
Documenting Lives: The Year in Romania
Documenting LivesThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Recovering exemplary lives of the recent past and recording the lives of leading intellectuals and established cultural figures of the present have been two of the main directions of life writing in Romanian culture so far, and they have continued this past year as well. Among the year's exciting new releases are autobiographies about childhood and youth under communism by well-known writers; …
"Transnational "Regards From Serbia
Cultural Figures and the Biographical Turn: The Year in Romania
Cultural Figures and the Biographical TurnThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Life writing continues to be published steadily in Romania, although there seems to have been a slight decrease in titles this year. Even with the decrease in printed works, some diaries and biographies were bestsellers and attracted significant attention. In terms of thematic focus, the inquiry into the recent past (mostly the twentieth century, with the turbulent int…
Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on post-communist literatures and cultures
This volume starts from the assumption that postcolonial theory is a “globally flexible: discourse that can be used to analyse a variety of regions” (13), and argues that Central and Eastern Europe
Exemplary Lives, Contemporary Lives: The Year in Romania
Exemplary Lives, Contemporary LivesThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) a look into the past The variety of life writing available on the Romanian book market remains as dazzling this year as it has been throughout the last three decades. Publishing houses with a long tradition in life writing series have expanded their portfolios with new, exciting autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, correspondence, and book-length interviews. For i…
Life Writing in Full Bloom: The Year in Romania
Life Writing in Full BloomThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) THE ROMANIAN POST-1989 LIFE WRITING CONTEXT The recent literary scene in Romania has been characterized as swept by “an avalanche of biographies, journals, and memoirs” (Mihăieș 7), with this “spectacular resurgence” of personal diaries, journals, memoirs, and confessions “tending to take over the market” (Manolescu 7–8). Although Romanian confessional literature dates back to the ear…
Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives: The 1.5 Generation of Communist Surveillance
The opening of the archives in the former Eastern European bloc has led to heated political debates in the ex-communist countries, lustration, and the reassessment of the Cold War experience, both east and west. This essay focuses on the significance of accessing the secret police files in life writing produced by the 1.5 generation of communist surveillance. I read Carmen Bugan's Burying the Typewriter and Kati Marton's Enemies of the People to …
Communism: Intimate Publics
My article examines Anca Vlasopolos's No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000) and Kapka Kassabova's Street Without A Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) in order to demonstrate how, in the case of communism, "intimate publics" was a space of survival, a means to evade full ideological indoctrination and also the very space of continuous state oppression
Post-Communist life writing and the discourses of history: Vesna Goldsworthy's Chernobyl Strawberries
Life writing in the aftermath of an Eastern European totalitarian regime combines the thorniest problems in autobiography – memory and self-representation – with the divisive aspects of remembering: blame and guilt. In the context of the war-torn former Yugoslavia, the use of memory, personal history, recollection, self-representation or the representability of one's autobiography become burning issues that inform one's understanding and renderin…
American Studies in Romania
American Studies at the University of Bucharest The idea of teaching American Studies and founding a program in American Studies was first voiced in the long meetings of faculty and students held at the University of Bucharest soon after the collapse of the communist regime. The proposal was one of many that reflected the spirit of reform and hope for radical changes at the outset of Romania’s transition to democracy. The absence of institutional…
Edward Said's Lieux de Mémoire
Communism: Intimate Publics
My article examines Anca Vlasopolos's No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000) and Kapka Kassabova's Street Without A Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) in order to demonstrate how, in the case of communism, "intimate publics" was a space of survival, a means to evade full ideological indoctrination and also the very space of continuous state oppression
Introduction: The Cultures Of Global Post/Socialisms
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives: The 1.5 Generation of Communist Surveillance
The opening of the archives in the former Eastern European bloc has led to heated political debates in the ex-communist countries, lustration, and the reassessment of the Cold War experience, both east and west. This essay focuses on the significance of accessing the secret police files in life writing produced by the 1.5 generation of communist surveillance. I read Carmen Bugan's Burying the Typewriter and Kati Marton's Enemies of the People to …
American Studies in Romania
American Studies at the University of Bucharest The idea of teaching American Studies and founding a program in American Studies was first voiced in the long meetings of faculty and students held at the University of Bucharest soon after the collapse of the communist regime. The proposal was one of many that reflected the spirit of reform and hope for radical changes at the outset of Romania’s transition to democracy. The absence of institutional…
Edward Said's Lieux de Mémoire
Post-Communist life writing and the discourses of history: Vesna Goldsworthy's Chernobyl Strawberries
Life writing in the aftermath of an Eastern European totalitarian regime combines the thorniest problems in autobiography – memory and self-representation – with the divisive aspects of remembering: blame and guilt. In the context of the war-torn former Yugoslavia, the use of memory, personal history, recollection, self-representation or the representability of one's autobiography become burning issues that inform one's understanding and renderin…
Communism: Intimate Publics
My article examines Anca Vlasopolos's No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000) and Kapka Kassabova's Street Without A Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) in order to demonstrate how, in the case of communism, "intimate publics" was a space of survival, a means to evade full ideological indoctrination and also the very space of continuous state oppression
Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives: The 1.5 Generation of Communist Surveillance
The opening of the archives in the former Eastern European bloc has led to heated political debates in the ex-communist countries, lustration, and the reassessment of the Cold War experience, both east and west. This essay focuses on the significance of accessing the secret police files in life writing produced by the 1.5 generation of communist surveillance. I read Carmen Bugan's Burying the Typewriter and Kati Marton's Enemies of the People to …
Life Writing in Full Bloom: The Year in Romania
Life Writing in Full BloomThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) THE ROMANIAN POST-1989 LIFE WRITING CONTEXT The recent literary scene in Romania has been characterized as swept by “an avalanche of biographies, journals, and memoirs” (Mihăieș 7), with this “spectacular resurgence” of personal diaries, journals, memoirs, and confessions “tending to take over the market” (Manolescu 7–8). Although Romanian confessional literature dates back to the ear…
Postcolonial Europe? Essays on post-communist literatures and cultures
This volume starts from the assumption that postcolonial theory is a “globally flexible: discourse that can be used to analyse a variety of regions” (13), and argues that Central and Eastern Europe
Exemplary Lives, Contemporary Lives: The Year in Romania
Exemplary Lives, Contemporary LivesThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) a look into the past The variety of life writing available on the Romanian book market remains as dazzling this year as it has been throughout the last three decades. Publishing houses with a long tradition in life writing series have expanded their portfolios with new, exciting autobiographies, biographies, journals, diaries, correspondence, and book-length interviews. For i…
Secret Police Files from the Eastern Bloc: Between Surveillance and Life Writing
Cultural Figures and the Biographical Turn: The Year in Romania
Cultural Figures and the Biographical TurnThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Life writing continues to be published steadily in Romania, although there seems to have been a slight decrease in titles this year. Even with the decrease in printed works, some diaries and biographies were bestsellers and attracted significant attention. In terms of thematic focus, the inquiry into the recent past (mostly the twentieth century, with the turbulent int…
"Transnational "Regards From Serbia
The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States. Claudia Sadowski-Smith
This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study brings to the map of American literature and American studies the post-Soviet migration to the United States and its cultural representations. Claudia Sadowski-Smith examines migration from the former Soviet Union and its successor nations (the ninth largest migration in the United States, according to the 2010 census) with an eye to all its complexities and intricate social, historical, legal, economic, …
Documenting Lives: The Year in Romania
Documenting LivesThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Recovering exemplary lives of the recent past and recording the lives of leading intellectuals and established cultural figures of the present have been two of the main directions of life writing in Romanian culture so far, and they have continued this past year as well. Among the year's exciting new releases are autobiographies about childhood and youth under communism by well-known writers; …
Introduction: The Cultures Of Global Post/Socialisms
The introduction to this special issue outlines comparative approaches to cultural representations of post/socialism in order to move beyond the term’s association with the Soviet Union, the unevenly aligned or nonaligned nations in Central/Eastern Europe (CEE), and the period between 1917 and 1990. The histories and afterlives of state socialisms, and socialist globalization in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, are at the center of ongoing…
Transnationalizing Memories of Post/Socialism: Diasporic Graphic Lives
The article focuses on The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain (Peter Sís, 2007) and Marzi (Sylvain Savoia and Marzena Sowa, 2004–2017), two widely translated autobiographical comics written in English and French, respectively, as an entry point into the afterlives of European state socialisms in global contexts. The author examines how Sís, a Czech-born illustrator and children book author, who defected to the United States, and Sowa, a Pol…
Between Inter-Imperial Pasts and the Neoliberal Present: The Year in Romania
Between Inter-Imperial Pasts and the Neoliberal PresentThe Year in Romania Ioana Luca (bio) Sălbaticii copii dingo: Cartea adolescenței, published in 2021, is the latest installment in Vasile Ernu's serial autobiographical project. A compulsive chronicler of his past, Ernu is a unique voice in Romanian culture. Born in Odesa, Ukraine, and raised in the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in a religious sectarian family, he came to Romania …
Burning Alive: The Year in Romania
Diasporic Frames of Remembering Post/Socialism: Global Intersections
How do memories of post/socialism travel and acquire global relevance today? This article examines Lea Ypi’s Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (2021) to argue that 1.5-generation diasporic life writing – narratives by those who experienced the collapse of socialism as children – unmoors these histories from their Cold War confines. Treating memoir as “social action”, I analyse how Ypi translates Albanian state socialism and the 1990s tran…
History (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Communism (10 works) · Literature (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · History (6 works)