The Novel of Memory as World Genre. Exploring the Romanian Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5794058 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreea Mironescu (0000-0002-9454-8792), Doris Mironescu (0000-0003-2241-5971) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 97-115 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dacoromania litteraria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2360-5189 • E-ISSN: 2360-5189 |
| Publisher | Academia Romana Filiala Cluj (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33993/drl.2020.7.97.115 |
| OpenAlex | W3152102623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
The novel of memory is a subgenre with an impressive spatial and cultural range: it manifested itself in numerous countries in all parts of the world, and it emerged only some four decades ago.However, its existence remains troubling in many respects: it was theorized in the academia before being canonized in the national literary histories.Moreover, it thrived in the discourse of recent cultural studies, rather than in that of literary studies.While the phrase became commonplace in some countries such as post-Francoist Spain, where academics embraced it and numerous writers illustrated it, the novel of memory does not seem to spread from one country to another.One may speak of polygenesis, noticing how the subgenre flourishes in different countries simultaneously, indebted to a similar or related political and historical climate maybe, but not really to a decisive, towering literary influence.That is because the novel of memory springs from a concern with political identity, not with form, so it is not essentially influenced by mimetic aspirations to replicate international commercial success, but instead it is fuelled by national and local stakes and conditions.Still, this doesn't mean that the novel of memory is destined to remain a mere local phenomenon, or a branch of some local phenomena, uninteresting from the viewpoint of a systematic research of world literature or quantitative analysis on a global scale.In this article, we set out to delineate the general traits of the subgenre in order to propose a definition that we will then use to speak of the Romanian novel of memory in the last four decades and to highlight its transformation from a subversive memory novel during the communist regime, to a traumatic, (n)ostalgic and, ultimately, agonistic memory novel in post-communism
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |