Arheologii ale prezentului în Istoria literaturii române contemporane
1990-2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11416290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adriana Stan (0000-0003-2392-8330, Sextil Pușcariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Pages | 61-66 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transilvania (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0255-0539 • E-ISSN: 3061-2217 |
| Publisher | ASTRA National Museum Complex (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.51391/trva.2021.07-08.07 |
| OpenAlex | W3208521581 |
| Language | RO |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
The paper disscusses the literary-historiographical enterprise of Mihai Iovănel’s History of the Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2000 as a turning point in respect with the twofold aesthetic and ethnocentric dominant of this genre in Romania, whose tradition that is traceable back to the pos-Thaw period prolongs into postcommunism. Iovănel’s self-claimed ”postmarxist” approach puts under a deconstructive lens the ideological embededness of the Romanian literary space, whose postcommunist avatar still owes largely to its communist heritage by its indebtment to dominantly conservative and right ideologies. It also switches the analytical focus of the literary history towards the material (i.e. social, institutional, and so forth) conditions of the literary production per se. My essays develops two basic critical points derived from the above-mentioned premises. One concerns the topicality of the literary historian’s leftist vantage point in the view of deciphering long-engrained myths of the national literature and of its criticism, thus providing a clearer, more realist picture of its concrete phenomena. The other debates the utility and eventual drawbacks of the retrospective analysis the historian is forced to assume in order to achieve his deconstructive task, a retrospection that pushes his investigation way behind the confines of ”contemporaneity”
Aesthetics · Art · Communism · Historiography · History of literature · Ideology · Left-wing politics · Literary criticism · Literature · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · Comparative and World Literature · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Law · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |