The mioritic nation - an alternative approach to Moldovan national identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11048451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roxana Adina Humă (University of Plymouth, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 397-415 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2015.1111317 |
| OpenAlex | W2289388133 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Moldova has been widely argued to be a failed nation-building project, with two national identity discourses coexisting within Moldovan society and amongst Moldovan elites: Romanianism and Moldovanism. Challenging the dominance of these discourses in the literature, this article argues that in spite of its absence from the nationalism debate in Moldova, the ballad Mioriţa is a key element for the Moldovan articulation of national identity. The analysis employs a discursive approach focused on language as a constituting phenomenon and draws from Mioriţa's appeal to the grass roots level, its banality in day-to-day life, and, more importantly, its promotion by Moldovan cultural elites. This latter part focuses specifically on the writings of novelist Ion Druţă. Druţă places Mioriţa at the very center of his construction of Moldovan national identity. He highlights its links with Moldovan history, culture, religious thinking, and geographical space, both reproducing a structure similar to the two national identity discourses, Romanianism and Moldovanism, and building on their similarities. But more importantly, Druţă's representation of national identity sheds light on the possibility of an all-encompassing Moldovan identity, overcoming the existing cleavage, and a series of mechanisms that can be employed to achieve this
Aesthetics · Identity (music · Linguistics · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
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Doing Discourse Analysis
The Break-up of Britain
Nationalism, Patriotism, and Group Loyalty
Marking time in the middle ground
Origins, Memory, and Identity
Narrative, Identity, State
From Moldovanism to Europeanization? Moldova's Communists and Nation Building
Constructing national history in political discourse
A Separate Moldovan Language? The Sociolinguistics of Moldova's Limba de Stat
Deconstructing Regions
Imagined communities
Internal Colonialism; The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966
The Ambivalence of Authenticity, or How the Moldovan Language Was Made
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Performing Hospitality in Moldova
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |