Translation of deconstructivism in the Romanian post-communist transition interval
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12342762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Alexandra Ciobanu (University of Bucharest, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 406-417 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Continuum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10304312.2024.2306238 |
| OpenAlex | W4391138645 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In the 90s, after the fall of the communist regime, Romania underwent a period of enthusiasm in the cultural and editorial sphere. Editors and translators attempted to cover the intellectual gap left by the late nationalist-communist regime between national book distribution in Romania and the cultural forerunners of post-structuralist thought. This paper shows how Jacques Derrida's work, when translated into Romanian, reveals the material conditions of translation policies during the early stages of enthusiastic cultural practices in post-communism. My analysis shows that the fast-forward policy of translation during the early 90s, combined with the lack of academic and institutional support, failed to introduce deconstruction to a larger audience and to accommodate it to the local theoretical field. I also investigate the felicity conditions of theoretical transfer in the case of deconstruction, which was marginalized in the Romanian intellectual field. Additionally, I demonstrate how the circulation of texts in the form of translation triggers intellectual interventions in the public sphere
Combinatorics · Communism · Interval (graph theory · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Transition (genetics · Translation (biology · Chemistry · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Cultural and National Identity · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |