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Etica imaginației în literatură și film: Importanța eticii în internaționalizare și intermedialitate

Autor: Șerban Mark POP
Email: serban.mark.pop@stud.ubbcluj.ro

The Ethics of Imagination in Literature and Film: The Importance of Ethics in Internationalization and Intermediality

Abstract: Starting from Asbjørn Grønstad’s concepts of biovisuality and the responsibility of forms, the paper analyzes the issues that arise when adapting self-fiction into film. It maps out how the concepts can be applied especially well to self-fiction and New Romanian Cinema, then applies them in a comparative analysis of Cezar Paul-Bădescu’s book, Luminița, mon amour, and Călin Peter Netzer’s movie adaptation, Ana, mon amour. The paper argues that whereas the book’s ambiguity succeeds in transmitting its central themes, the movie fails to faithfully adapt the central ideas due to an inadequate choice in form. Finally, the paper argues that the formal issues cause ethical faults which hinder the transnational effort and negatively influence the worlding process.

Keywords: transnational, intermedial adaptation, adaptation ethics, representation ethics, ethics and aesthetics, Romanian New Wave, New Romanian Cinema, Călin Peter Netzer, Cezar Paul-Bădescu, worlding Romanian literature.

Buda, Dumitru-Mircea. Reabilitarea prozei în literatura română a ultimilor ani. Câteva studii de caz [The Rehabilitation of Prose in Recent Romanian Literature: Some Case Studies]. Chișinău: Limba Română no. 11-12, 2009.

Christians, G. Clifford, Mark Fackler, Kim B. Rotzoll, and Kathy B. McKee. Etica Mass-Media [Mass-Media Ethics]. Iași: Polirom, 2001.

Deaver, Frank. Etica în Mass Media [Ethics in Mass Media]. Bucharest: Silex, 2004.

Downing, Lisa, and Libby Saxton. Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters. New York & London: Routledge, 2010.

Fisher, Mark. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Winchester: Zero Books, 2009

Fisher, Mark. Realism capitalist. Nu există nicio alternativă? [Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative?], translated by Paul-Teodor Cristescu, introduction by Ștefan Baghiu. Cluj-Napoca: Tact, 2022.

Foucault, Michel. “On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress.” In The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, 340-371. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Goldiș, Alex, and Ștefan Baghiu, eds. Translations and Semi-Peripheral Cultures: Worlding the Romanian Novel in the Modern Literary System. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022.

Gorzo, Andrei. Lucruri care nu pot fi spuse altfel: Un mod de a gândi cinemaul, de la André Bazin la Cristi Puiu. [Things that Cannot Be Said in Any Other Way: A Way of Thinking Cinema, from André Bazin to Cristi Puiu]. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2012.

Gorzo, Andrei. “Scene dintr-o căsnicie: Ana, mon amour al lui Călin Peter Netzer” [Scenes from a Marriage: Ana, mon amour by Călin Peter Netzer]. Vatra, March 11, 2017. https://revistavatra.org/2017/03/11/andrei-gorzo-scene-dintr-o-casnicie-ana-mon-amour-al-lui-calin-peter-netzer/.

Gorzo, Andrei. “Veterani” [Veterans]. Dilema Veche, December 2, 2010. https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/la-zi-in-cultura/film/veterani-607956.html

Gorzo, Andrei and Lazăr, Veronica. “The New Romanian Cinema and Beyond: The films of Radu Jude.” Transilvania, no. 3, (2021).

Gorzo, Andrei, and Andrei State, eds. Politicile filmului [Politics of Film]. Cluj-Napoca: Tact, 2014.

Grønstad, Asbjørn. Film and the Ethical Imagination. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Gross, Larry, John Stuart Katz, and Jay Ruby. Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film and Television. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Iovănel, Mihai. Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc [The Ideologies of Literature in Romanian Postcomunism]. Bucharest: Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, 2016.

Iovănel, Mihai. Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 [The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020]. Iași, Polirom, 2021.

Martin, Mircea, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian.  Romanian Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

McCombs, Maxwell, and Daniel Shaw. “The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media.” The Public Opinion Quarterly 36, no. 2 (1972): 176–187.

Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Oxford: Screen 16, 3rd edition, 1975.

Onisei, Ana-Maria. “INTERVIU Călin Peter Netzer, regizor: «Psihanaliza m-a interesat tot timpul, în Ana, mon amour» VIDEO” [INTERVIEW Călin Peter Netzer, director: “Psychoanalysis has always been of interest to me in Ana, mon amour” VIDEO]. Adevărul, February 11, 2017. https://adevarul.ro/stil-de-viata/cultura/interviu-calin-peter-netzer-regizor-1765740.html.

Paul-Bădescu, Cezar. Luminița, mon amour. Iași: Polirom, 2006

Poenaru, Florin. Locuri comune. Clasă, anticomunism, stânga [Common Places: Class, Anticommunism, Left]. Cluj-Napoca: Tact, 2017.

Pop, Doru. Romanian New Wave Cinema. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014.

Pîrjol, Florina. Carte de identități [Book of Identities]. Iași: Polirom, 2014

Stojanova, Christina, and Dana Duma. The New Romanian Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.

Ștefănescu, Cecilia. Legături bolnăvicioase [Sick Love]. Bucharest: Editura Paralela 45, 2002.

Turcuș, Claudiu. “From the Nostalgia of Aestheticism to the Rediscovery of Ideology. Romanian Literary and Film Criticism After 2000.” Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media no. 9 (2013).

Turcuș, Claudiu. Împotriva memoriei. De la estetismul socialist la noul cinema românesc [Against Memory: From Socialist Aestheticism to the New Romanian Cinema]. Cluj-Napoca: Eikon, 2017.

Ung, Snejana. “The Challenges of Writing a National Literary History in the Era of Transnationalism: Insights from a Peripheral Literary Space.” Transilvania, no. 7-8 (2021).

 

Filmography

Ana, mon amour, România, 2017. Director: Călin Peter Netzer

Legături bolnăvicioase, România, 2006. Director: Tudor Giurgiu

Maria, România, 2003. Director: Călin Peter Netzer

Medalia de onoare, România, 2009. Director: Călin Peter Netzer

Moartea domnului Lăzărescu, Director, 2005, Regizor: Cristi Puiu

Poziția copilului, România, 2013, Director: Călin Peter Netzer

Matei Vișniec. Spațiul românesc al dramaturgiei postdecembriste – teatrul postdramatic

Autor: Ioana TOLOARGĂ
Email: ioana.toloarga@yahoo.com

Matei Vișniec: The Romanian Space of Postcommunist Dramaturgy – Post dramatic Theatre

Abstract: The present paper proposes the analysis of the dramatic work of Matei Vișniec – a Romanian poet and prose writer, built and validated by the French center as an internationally exportable playwriter, by following the aesthetic-political relationship. I question, above all, the reasons why the parabolic formula is the favorite in the author’s dramaturgy – its causes and effects, in relation to the ideological level and the thematization of the trauma of the communist (/totalitarian) regime. The thesis of my article is that, behind the parable (which implies a form of mediation) and the discursive metaphorism, respectively an apparent aesthetic gratuity, there is a political thesis that can be reinterpreted, reframed by both target audiences: Eastern and Western. Thus, the playwright built at the center and imported by the Romanian periphery accumulates symbolic capital from both territories, defined as a successful as a transnational author.

Keywords: Matei Vișniec, the Other, postmodernism, the ’90 Romanian generațion, parabolic theatre, politic theatre, Romanian communism.

Brudașca, Ioana. “Matei Vișniec în dialog cu Ionescu sau despre absurdul istoriei” [Matei Vișniec in Dialogue with Ionescu or about the Absurdity of History]. Transilvania, no. 3 (2014).

Casanova, Pascale. Republica Mondială a Literelor [The World Republic of Letters]. Translated by Cristina Bîzu. Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2007.

Chiorean, Maria. “Teatrul politic românesc: vârsta post-comunismului” [Romanian Political Theatre: The Postcommunist Age]. Transilvania, no. 1 (2020): 38-44.

Ciocan, Ioana. Forme și formule ale comediei contemporane [Forms and Formulas of contemporary comedy]. PhD thesis, LBUS, Sibiu, 2013.

Faifer, Florin. “Matei Vișniec – De la farsa tragică la parabola filosofică” [Matei Vișniec – From Tragic Farce to Philosophical Parable in Romanian Playwrights]. In Dramaturgi români [Romanian Playwrights], with a preface written by Mircea Ghițulescu, 204-208. Iași: Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2009.

Gârdan, Daiana. “Repertoriile teatrale în România de azi (1990-2000) și locul pieselor scrise în comunism. O prezentare cantitativă” [Theatrical repertoires in Romania today (1990-2000) and the place of plays written under communism. A quantitative presentation]. In Să nu privești înapoi. Comunism, dramaturgie, societate [Never look back. Communism, dramaturgy, society], edited by Liviu Malița, 543-557. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022.

Ghițulesu, Mircea. Istoria literaturii române. Dramaturgia [History of Romanian Literature. Drama]. Bucharest: Tracus Arte, 2008.

Hațiegan, Anca. “Teatrul” [Theatre]. In Panorama postcomunismului în România [The Panorama of Post-communism in Romania], edited by Liliana Corobca, 684-715. Iași: Editura Polirom, 2022.

Iovănel, Mihai. Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc [Ideologies of Literature in Romanian Post-Communism]. Bucharest: Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române, 2017.

Iovănel, Mihai. Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 [History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020]. Iași: Polirom, 2021.

Komporaly, Jozefina. “Staging History: Memory and Representation in the Theatre of Matéi Visniec and András Visky.” In Literatura, Teatrul si Filmul, în onoarea dramaturgului Matei Vișniec, edited by Marina Cap-Bun and Florentina Nicolae, 1-10. Constanța: Ovidius University Press, 2015.

Lefter, Ion Bogdan. “Un dramaturg la start: perioada românească a lui Matei Vișniec (primele șase piese)” [A Playwright at the Start: The Romanian Period of Matei Vișniec (the first six plays)]. In Matei Vișniec, Opera dramatică [Theatre Work], 5-23. Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 2017.

Lehmann, Hans-Thies. Teatrul postdramatic [Postdramatic Theatre]. Translated by Victor Scoradeț. Bucharest: Unitext, 2009.

Malița, Liviu. “Stop-cadru după treizeci de ani” [Freeze-frame, thirty years later]. In Să nu privești înapoi. Comunism, dramaturgie, societate [Never look back. Communism, dramaturgy, society], edited by Liviu Malița, 21-53. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022.

Mazilu, Alina. Festivalul Internațional de Teatru de la Sibiu ca promotor al dramaturgiei contemporane. Aspecte din dramaturgia română actuală [The International Theater Festival in Sibiu as a promoter of contemporary dramaturgy. Aspects of contemporary Romanian dramaturgy]. Craiova: Editura Universalia, 2019.

Nelega, Alina. Structuri și forme de compoziție ale textului dramatic [Structures and Compositional Forms of Dramatic Text]. Cluj-Napoca: Eikon, 2010.

Nelega, Alina. “Întoarcerea dramaturgului: resuscitarea tragicului si deteatralizarea teatrului” [The Return of the Playwright: The Resuscitation of the Tragic and the De-Theaterization of theater]. Observator cultural, no. 296, 2005. https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/intoarcerea-dramaturgului-resuscitarea-tragicului-si-deteatralizarea-teatrului-2/.

Nelega, Alina. Piesa românească, astăzi [The Romanian Theatre Play, Today]. Bucharest: UNITEXT, 2000.

Pavel, Laura. Teatru şi identitate. Interpretări pe scena interioară [Theatre and Identity: Interpretations on the Inner Stage]. Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2012.

Pavel, Laura. “O terapie histrionică: piesele de început ale lui Vișniec” [A Histrionic Therapy: The Early Plays of Vișniec]. In Să nu privești înapoi. Comunism, dramaturgie, societate [Never look back. Communism, dramaturgy, society], edited by Liviu Malița, 519-532. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022.

Popescu, Marian. Scenele teatrului românesc. 1945-2004. De la cenzură la libertate. Studii de istorie, critică și teorie teatrală [Romanian Theatre Scenes. 1945-2004. From Censorship to Freedom. Studies in History, Criticism, and Theatrical Theory]. Bucharest: Unitext, 2004.

Popescu, Theodor-Cristian. Surplus de oameni sau surplus de idei. Pionierii mişcării independente în teatrul românesc post 1989 [Surplus of People or Surplus of Ideas: The Pioneers of the Independent Movement in Romanian Theatre after 1989]. Cluj-Napoca: Eikon, 2012.

Roman, Aurelia. “Drame de la femme victime, ou Comment la douleur se fait art.” Nouvelles Études Francophones 20, no. 2 (2005): 185-203.

Runcan, Miruna. “Dramaturgia și datoriile (amânate ale) criticii de teatru” [Dramaturgy and the (Deferred) Duties of Theatre Criticism]. In Să nu privești înapoi. Comunism, dramaturgie, societate [Never look back. Communism, dramaturgy, society], edited by Liviu Malița, 605-612. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2022.

Vasiliu, Mihai. Istoria teatrului românesc [The History of Romanian Theatre]. Bucharest: Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, R.A., 1995.

Vișniec, Matei. Omul din cerc [Man in the circle]. Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2011.

Vișniec, Matei. Opera dramatică 1. Bucharest: Cartea Românească, 2017.

Wohl, Eugen Radu. “Direcții în noua dramaturgie” [Directions in the New Dramaturgy]. In Viața teatrală în și după comunism [The World of Theatre during and after Communism], edited by Liviu Malița, 325-348. Cluj: EFES, 2006.

Mutații transmediale în producțiile artistice douămiiste

Autor: Denisa Artemisa CHIRTEȘ
Email: denisa_artemisa@yahoo.com

Transmedia Mutations in the Artistic Productions of the 2000s 

Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the ideological mutations that occur by turning the written text into an adaptation, using the protagonists that play the role of the marginal, both in the novel and in the movie, facilitating the breakthrough in the peripheral universe. Transmedia reveals the construction of the same fictional word, but the shift lies in the swinging between ideological isms: progressivism and conservatism, capitalism and anti-capitalism. This study is focused on recent literature and its adaptations. Characters have got the same name, they live in similar universes, but the main aim of this paper is to identify the shifts that result from turning the written message into a visual one. The same “story” can take a different ideological turn, therefore, both creations must be taken into consideration, in order to comprehend the global message. The ”double-creations” chosen to illustrate this point are: Love Sick by Cecilia Ștefănescu, motivating this choice by the progressivism of the adaptation in contrast to the conservatism of the novel, concentrating on the queer component; I am an old communist hag! by Dan Lungu where the focus falls on the anti-capitalist view, whereas the novel concentrates on an anti-communism ideology; Soldiers by Adrian Schiop, a case where the movie diminishes the focus on the progressivism, shifting the prespective on the universal love story between Adi and Alberto.

Keywords: transmedia, mutation, ideology, anti-capitalism, communism, progressivism, conservatism

Baghiu, Ștefan. “Nașterea tragediei în spiritul manelelor” [The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Manele]. Cultura no. 457 (2014). https://revistacultura.ro/nou/nasterea-tragediei-din-spiritul-manelelor/.

Cernat, Paul. “O istorie progresistă a literaturii române recente (II)” [A Progressive History of Recent Romanian Literature]. Observator Cultural, no. 1068 (2022). https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/o-istorie-progresista-a-literaturii-romane-recente-ii/

Cistelecan, Alex, and Raluca Manolescu. “Sociologia romanului românesc contemporan (I)” [The Sociology of the Romanian Contemporary Novel]. Vatra no. 5-6 (2021). https://revistavatra.org/2021/08/04/sociologia-romanului-romanesc-contemporan-i/.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2, Imaginea-timp [Cinema 2], translated by Ştefana Pop-Curşeu and Ioan Pop-Curşeu. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Tact, 2013.

Eliott, Kamilla. “Theorizing Adaptations: Adapting Theories.” In Adaptation Studies, edited by Jorgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).

Gorzo, Andrei. “Dinamită: Soldații Ivanei Mladenovic” [Dynamite: Soldiers by Ivana Mladenovic]. Vatra no. 9-10 (2017). https://revistavatra.org/2017/09/14/andrei-gorzo-dinamita-soldatii-ivanei-mladenovic/.

Gulea, Stere. “Am scris de 5 ori scenariul la Sunt o babă comunistă” [I wrote 5 times the script for Sînt o babă comunistă]. Adevărul, August 30, 2013. https://adevarul.ro/stil-de-viata/cultura/interviu-stere-gulea-regizor-am-scris-de-cinci-1469070.html.

Iovănel, Mihai. “Pagini LGBT în literatura română” [LGBT Pages in Romanian Literature]. Scena 9, May 19, 2017. https://www.scena9.ro/article/lgbt-literatura-romania.

Iovănel, Mihai. Ideologiile literaturii în postcomunismul românesc [The Ideologies of Literature in Romanian Postcommunism]. Bucharest: Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, 2016.

Iovănel, Mihai. Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 [The History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020]. Iași: Polirom, 2021.

Moraru, Christian. “Șaizecizarea optzecismului. Contemporaneitate și decontemporaneizare în literatura de azi” [The Sixtification of the Eighties: Contemporaneity and Decontemporaneization in Today’s Literature], Vatra no. 9 (2022). https://revistavatra.org/2022/10/07/christian-moraru-saizecizarea-optzecismului-contemporaneitate-si-decontemporaneizare-in-literatura-romana-de-azi/comment-page-1/.

Pop, Doru. “The Grammar of the New Romanian Cinema: In Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies” 3 (2010).

Stan, Adriana. “Dragoste cu năbădăi” [Tough Love], Cultura no. 455 (2014). https://revistacultura.ro/nou/dragoste-cu-nabadai/.

Șăran, Mirela. “World Literature și romanul pașaport: Sînt o babă comunistă!” [World Literature and the Passport Novel: I am an old communist hag!]. Vatra no 11-12 (2017). https://revistavatra.org/2018/01/26/mirela-saran-world-literature-si-romanul-pasaport-sint-o-baba-comunista/.

Ștefănescu, Cecilia. Legături Bolnăvicioase [Love Sick]. Editura Polirom, București, 2005.

Terian, Andrei. “COMMUNALITY: Un-Disciplining Race, Class, and Sex in the Wake of Anti-PC Monomania.” In Theory in the Post Era, edited by Alexandru Matei, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Ursa, Mihaela. Indisciplina ficțiunii. Viața de după carte a literaturii [The Indiscipline of Fiction: The Life of Literature after the Book]. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Casa Cărții de știință, 2022.

Literatura în cinematografia românească: ecranizări ale operei literare sau surse de inspirație regizorală?

Autor: Mihaela DESPAN
Email: mihaela.despan@s.unibuc.ro

Literature in Romanian Cinema: Screenings of Literary Works or Inspiration Sources for Directors?

Abstract: The paper proposes an analysis of literature’s role in the current Romanian cinematographic context, starting from two case studies: After the Hills (2012) by Cristian Mungiu, based on the novel Spovedanie la Tanacu by Tatiana Niculescu Bran and Moromeții 2 (2018) by Stere Gulea, based on the novels Moromeții vol. II and Viața ca o pradă… by Marin Preda. The approach aims to carry out a comparative analysis regarding both the role played by the literary work in the cinematographic production as well as the valorization of the literary work through the film. In the current socio-cultural context, the artistic impact of a film creates the cultural premises for the propagation of a literary work to several types of audiences. Artistic products derived from literary works develop a series of issues regarding adaptation methods, aesthetic interpretation, and even artistic interference regarding the assimilation of a literary piece in relation to the cinematographic production. The paper presents two case studies to analyze how the literary work appears either as an adjunct to the cinematographic production or as a central element of the filmographic artistic exposition. These case studies are used to determine the role that the film industry has in the processes of internationalization, propagation, and even popularization of a literary work in a Romanian consumer society, which is dangerously far removed from the book industry. Thus, the scientific approach proposes an exploration of literary valorization through cinematographic artistic products in order to popularize and mediate literature in today’s society.

Keywords: Romanian cinematography, literature to script, artistic reinterpretation, Romanian novel transmediality.

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Cartmell, Deborah. 100+ Years of Adaptations. Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

Fulger, Mihai. Noul Val în Cinematografia Romaneasca [The New Wave in Romanian Cinematography]. Bucharest: Art, 2008.

Gorzo, Andrei, and Veronica Lazăr. “The New Romanian Cinema and Beyond: The Films of Radu Jude.” Transilvania, no. 3 (2022): 1-9.

Hutcheon, Linda. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Lazăr, Ioan. Filmele etalon ale cinematografiei românești [Milestones of Romanian Cinema]. Bucharest: Felix Film, 2009.

Leicht, Thomas. “Adaptation and Intertextuality, or, What isn’t an Adaptation, and What Does it Matter?.” In A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation, edited by Deborah Cartmell, 87-104. Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

Martin, Mircea, Christian Moraru, and Andrei Terian. Romanian Literature as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Murray, Simone. “The Business of Adaptation: Reading the Market.” In A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation, edited by Deborah Cartmell, 122-139. Hoboken: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.

Sanders, Julie. Adaptation and Appropriation. New York: Routledge, 2016.

Stecker, Robert. Aestetichs and Philosphy of Art: An Introduction. Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

Turcuș, Claudiu. Împotriva memoriei – de la estetismul socialist la noul cinema românesc [Against Memory – From Socialist Aestheticism to the New Romanian Cinema]. Bucharest: Eikon, 2017.

Goldiș, Alex. “Moromete să ne judece” [Let Moromete be our Judge]. Dilema Veche no. 769 (2018). https://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/moromete-sa-ne-judece-626016.html.

Fulger, Mihai. “Pragmatism şi opacitate” [Pragmaticism and Opacity]. Observator cultural, no. 649 (2012). https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/pragmatism-si-opacitate-2/.

Pop, Doru. “An Analysis of Romanians’ Self-Image in Contemporary Cinematographic Representations.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 1, no. 1 (2015): 138-160.

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Reprezentări ale animalelor și dislocarea antropocentrismului în poezia română postdouămiistă

Autor: Oana Andrada STRUGARU
Email: oana.andrada.strugaru@gmail.com

Abstract: With a tradition of economic, political, and institutional settings built on a dynamic based on dominance, animals have been systematically assigned the role of an inferior form of „otherness”, essential, nevertheless, in shaping the anthropocentric mentality and validating the narrative of human exceptionalism. The longevity of such speciesist practices throughout the humanist discourses obliges the posthumanist project of creating a postanthropocentric concept of subjectivity to pay special attention to the issues regarding the animals, their representations, and their interactions with ‘us’. This paper stems from Rosi Braidotti’s project of a posthuman subject understood as a hybrid entity integrated through a system of material and informational connections with all forms of existence in the natureculture continuum and follows the implications it has on redesigning our interactions with the non-human beings in a post-anthropocentric context. My purpose is to study how contemporary Romanian poetry reflects this new vision of subjectivity and its impact on reimagining the relations between the human and non-human beings. The analysis on volumes such as val chimic’s umilirea animalelor (the humiliation of animals), Mihók Tamás’s biocharia. ritual ecolatru, Adelina Pascale’s maki for 2, Gabi Eftimie’s Sputnik în grădină (Sputnik in the garden), or Diana Cornea’s Setări avansate de lumină (Advanced lighting settings) confirms the increasing interest of Romanian post-millenary poetry in reshaping the depictions of animals and human-animal interactions according to a postanthropocentric perspective.
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Keywords: post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, animal studies, romanian poetry

Alexander, Wil. “Eugenics and Animal Science: Two Birds of a Feather or a Horse of a Different Color”, The Alexandrian 3, no. 1 (2014): 6-14.

Braidotti, Rosi. Postumanul [The Posthuman], translated by Ovidiu Anemțoaicei. Bucharest: Hecate, 2016.

Berger, John. “Why Look at Animals?” [1977]. In John Berger, About Looking. New York: Vintage International, 1992.

Calarco, Matthew R. Animal Studies: The Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Calarco, Matthew R. The Boundaries of Human Nature: The Philosophical Animal from Plato to Haraway. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.

Cornea, Diana. Setări avansate de lumina [Advanced Lighting Settings]. Alba Iulia: Editura OMG, 2022.

Derrida, Jacques. The animal therefore I am. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

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Autor: Geanina GIUHAT
Email: geaninaioana.giuhat@ulbsibiu.ro

Periphery as Super condition of Existence in Literature: Ileana Negrea and Identity Overabundance

Abstract: The main aim of this paper is the analysis of how the multi-peripheral position in Ileana Negrea’s poetry is recontextualized in the geotemporality of contemporary Romanian culture, acknowledging her formation in a different language and through the reception and the application of feminist theories and praxis from other spaces, especially from the South American one, that are stratified and inserted in her texts. The analysis focuses on how the inflection point of her marginal identity, gender-queerness-madness, is recomposed in the actual Romanian cultural and geopolitical circumstances and how her texts are perceived accordingly with these. At the same time, it will be explored how Negrea’s texts enroll in the world literature system via her registering in the worldly queer-feminist literary scheme.

key words: Ileana Negrea’s poetry, queer-mad poetry, feminist poetry, contemporary Romanian feminist poetry, worldy queer-feminist literay scheme.

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Autor: Emanuel LUPAȘCU
Email: emanuel.lupascu@stud.ubbcluj.ro

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Redefiniri ale feminității și viziuni feministe în poezia recentă din România și Rusia

Autor: Mihaela MUNTEANU
Email: mihaela.munteanu15@s.unibuc.ro

Redefining the Feminine and Feminist Views in Recent Romanian and Russian Poetry

Abstract: This paper comparatively analyses the feminist problematic in the texts of four poets, two of them belonging to Romanian contemporary literature and the other two to Russian literature: Miruna Vlada – Elena Vlădăreanu and Oksiana Vasiakina – Anastasia Vekșina. The analysis starts from the ideas of the theorist Julia Kristeva, who studies female identity from the point of view of semiotics, anthropology and psychology. I will follow the predominant theme in the works of the aforementioned poets, feminist poets by self-definition and through their writings: the feminine outlook in the context of war, marriage, motherhood, the manifestation and survival of this perspective, observing the ideational and stylistic similarities and differences in the creations of the aforementioned poets. The aim of the paper is to uncover the universality of the female experience in contexts that may undermine it.

Keywords: feminine, identity, feminism, maternity, society

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Autor: Bogdan VIȘAN
Email: visan0bogdan@gmail.com

Is Posthumanism Metamodernism? Convergences and Divergences in Contemporary Romanian Poetry

Abstract: Romanian criticism has tended to use generational framing to delineate the boundaries of local poetic paradigms, which has also been the case for the Generation 2000 and Generation post-2000. If in the 1980’s a discussion about a Romanian postmodernism was put into debate, in 2018 the question regarding the emergence of a Romanian poetry metamodernism arises. In this context, I intend to trace in this paper the nuances of generational debates in order to outline to what extent this methodology succeeds in describing the mutations and the characteristics of recent poetry. With the posthuman turn and the possibilities for the emergence of metamodernism being debated, my paper addresses, on the one hand, the viability of metamodernism in recent poetry, and, on the other, possible points of conjunctions of posthumanism and metamodernism. The posthuman turn encompasses the post-2000 generation, while local discussions have also proposed metamodernism as a label for the post-2000 generation. The question I start from is to what extent, theoretically, is our local poetry metamodernist in its sensibility and specificity, and to what extent does posthumanism fit into a metamodernist heuristic label. Although the debate remains open insofar as the Romanian theoretical field seems rather refractory to transnational theoretical fictions, what I observe in this article is that metamodernism, as theoretically proposed, can be a viable alternative to the crisis of critical discourse.

Keywords: posthumanism, metamodernism, Generation 2000, Generation Post-2000

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Reinventarea ca scriitor american a lui Norman Manea

Autor: Denisa-Corina BOLBA
Email: bolba_denisa@yahoo.com

The Reinvention of Norman Manea as American Writer

 

Abstract: The present research aims to bring into discussion the complex figure of Norman Manea, representative of the studies concerned with the analysis of the globalization strategies of Romanian literature. Relevant in this sense is the process of “reinvention” of a Romanian writer in an American context, through which one can understand the efforts of cultural and literary transplantation, of a constant, non-euphoric revisionism – according to Claudiu Turcuș’s formula –, as an alternative to the necessary political scale of aesthetics, but also the confrontation of clichés coming from the American continent. Throughout this endeavor, attention will be paid to the manner in which Romanian literature allows itself to be shaped, from its (semi)peripheral position, by the effects of a quintessentially transnational culture, such as the American one. What does the integration of Norman Manea entail, formed as an identity in the Eastern European context and as a survivor of some totalitarian regimes, how much of this identity is “saved” or diminished to ensure integration, how is a successful dialogue between the margin and the center formed, remain pillar questions for a profitable discussion for current Romanian studies, concerned with the status of Romanian literature as world literature. Norman Manea’s writings thus facilitate the updating of other themes, in addition to that of dislocation and relocation that migration produces: the contrast between the representation of communism in Eastern European prose and the representations of the West or the international reception of contemporary Romanian literature, subjects through which we aspire to overcome the proposed framework discussion.

Keywords:   Norman Manea, constellation of exiled writers, literary regimes of relevance, transnational identity, travelling literatu

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Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu. De la apelativul memoriei la emergența maximalistă

Autor: Alexandra CÎRCU
Email: alexandracircu36@gmail.com

Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu: From Memory Appeal to Maximalist Emergence

Abstract: This paper aims at analyzing the connection between the contemporary Romanian literature and world literature through the emergence of maximalist novel embodied in Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu’s novel, Abraxas. The author belongs to the 2000 generation, a generation which has neglected the postmodern maximalist approach. Therefore, I intend to analyze the emergence of maximalism in Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu’s novel by indicating the tension it generated in regards with the previous minimalist formula and by observing the connection of literature with the socio-economic context of the 2000’s.

Keywords: Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, maximalist novel, minimalism, Generation 2000.

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Romanul comunismului românesc înainte și după Istoria lui Mihai Iovănel

Autor: Bogdan CONTEA
Email: bogdan.contea@ulbsibiu.ro

The Romanian Novel about Communism before and after Mihai Iovănel’s History

Abstract: This paper makes a case for analyzing the way in which the novel of Communism is approached by Mihai Iovănel in his History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020. This is a topic that was intensely discussed by Romanian literary criticism in Post-communism and represents the weakness of Romanian literature, either by it not being able to give a sufficiently convincing novel, or by not being able to agree upon how this novel should look. Accordingly, the critics had difficulties in labeling any novel that had been published after ‘89s as “the novel of communism.” The first part of the article is a panning of recent discussions about this term in relation to the analysis made by Iovănel in his History. The second part aims to trace out a network of this type of novel in the literatures of Central and Eastern Europe and to try to identify its particularities through a comparative analysis. The last part consists of a study case of the novels Acasă, pe câmpia Armaghedonului [At home, on the Field of Armageddon] by Marta Petreu and Bureți de Fag [Oyster Mushrooms] by Mihai Duțescu. The latter has been published after the History and both novels are analyzed from the perspective of the novel of communism.

Keywords: communism, postcommunism, novel about communism, literary historiography, Mihai Iovănel.

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Multilingvismul și periferia: o analiză a romanului basarabean post-sovietic

Autor: Hanna HAN
Email: ioanahanna.han@ulbsibiu.ro

Multilingualism and the Periphery: An Analysis of the Post-Soviet Bessarabian Novel

Abstract: This article aims to explore how multilingualism is explored in Bessarabian literature and the way in which these phenomena can create cultural and identity crisis in the collective imaginary of The Republic of Moldova. Thus, it can be observed that in the Soviet period, but also after the fall of the empire, speakers of “Moldavian” language, afterwards named Romanian, are treated as inferior to Russian speakers, Moldavians becoming a periphery. Approaching multilingualism the way it is presented in Multilingual Literature as World Literature edited by Jane Hiddleston and Wen-chin Ouyang, a second objective of this paper is to investigate the identity crisis of the teenagers of Perestroika and the fall of the URSS, but also of the young adults that were brought up in the unsteady world that followed after these events. In doing so, the way in which the Bessarabian people were peripheral. According to the fact that this type of literature is insufficiently discussed, there will be analyzed three such novels, in order to offer a wider image of Chisinau between the 80’s and the 2000 and its transition: Grădina de sticlă (The Glass Garden) by Tatiana Țîbuleac, Sălbaticii copii dingo (The Savage Dingo Kids) by Vasile Ernu and Perestroika boys by Dinu Guțu. The other aspect that will be explored is the image of Romania and its literature in the Soviet Bessarabia, two neighbour countries that did not have an intercultural dialogue until 1991.

Keywords: multilingualism, Bessarabia literature, linguistic periphery, identity crisis

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Guțu, Dinu. Perestroika boys. Iași, Polirom, 2021.

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Varga, Dragoș, and Ștefan Baghiu. “Mirrored Otherness and Microhistory in Post-Soviet Literature: The Estranged Milieus in Vasile Ernu’s Essays and Fiction.” Transylvanian review xxxi, supplement no. 1 (2022): 223-234.

Magical Hyperrealism: A Reading of Orbitor through Magical Realism and Maximalism

Autor: Santiago Daniel Gutiérrez ECHEVERRÍA
Email: santiagodanielge@gmail.com

Abstract: In this stylistic study I propose a reading of Orbitor [Blinding] through two literary modes: magical realism and maximalism, as Mircea Cărtărescu’s trilogy contains elements that fit into both literary modes, albeit with some differences. Such a reading would allow the formulation of the term magical hyperrealism as a new literary mode. The understanding of magical realism is based on three features: authorial reticence, amplification of reality through “faith” and social comprehension. Regarding authorial reticence, Beatrice Amaryll Chanady compares magical realism with the fantastic as defined by T. Todorov. Unlike the fantastic, which creates doubt between a real or a supernatural explanation for unlikely events, magical realism allows the ordinary and the marvelous to coexist as two components of a harmonious reality that is given without explanation (authorial reticence). The amplification of reality through faith in the marvelous and the social comprehension of the marvelous are concepts based on Alejo Carpentier’s lo real maravilloso. In Orbitor all of these features appear in many episodes, although unlike traditional magical realism, faith in the marvelous is expressed through personal-intellectual convictions rather than social-collective beliefs. As for maximalism, Orbitor fulfills most of the ten characteristics of this genre as defined by Stefano Ercolino. The main difference is point 10: “hybrid realism.” In this case, maximalism usually distorts reality for representational purposes, but Orbitor distorts it for purely literary purposes or for a psychic-subjective exploration of the author. From comparing Orbitor with both literary modes, magical hyperrealism as a literary mode is defined as follows: a totalizing-encyclopedic vision of reality that, with authorial reticence, harmonizes the real and the marvelous through a strong faith. Some applications and future possibilities are discussed in the conclusions.

Keywords: magical realism, maximalism, hyperrealism, fantastic, Mircea Cărtărescu, Orbitor, literary modes, postmodernism, Hispanic literature, English literature, Romanian literature.

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Biografia romanțată ca proiect editorial recent – Constantin Brâncuși în contextul life writing

Autor: Andreea AMZICĂ
Email: andreeamihaela.amzica@ulbsibiu.ro

Romantic Biography as Recent Editorial Project – Constantin Brâncuși in Life Writing Context

Abstract: This paper aims to explore what might be the limits of what we call today Biographical Novel, framed as Biographical Fiction or Life Writing, research that has as its central objective to find an answer to questions such as: what might be the features of the genre and what purpose do they serve today? How do we relate to past personalities in the present context and what can we extract from their lives – can we talk about censorship/ attributing an unrealistic context to a public personality? But more importantly, what is the relationship between fact and fiction constructed, given that the boundary between these is very vulnerable? All these questions are meant to guide the readers throughout the study. Even if the genre is not so much in demand among writers today, probably for reasons related to the economy of time, such writing can become interesting to study how the author chooses to present someone’s life, a choice that must first be well documented, and then fully assumed, with full responsibility for the facts shown. The points on which the paper will focus are related to the novel of Moni Stănilă Brâncuși sau cum a învățat țestoasa să zboare, the biography Constantin Brancusi by Sanda Miller and the „On Constantin Brancusi” study written by Dore Ashton, where the construction of Constantin Brâncuși’s personality, as it appears in their works, will be contextualized in World Literature.

Keywords: bio-fiction, life-writing, reality vs. fiction in biography, national/international context on Brâncuși.

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Autoficțiune și identitate multiplă – Dezrădăcinare de Sașa Zare

Autor: Ana-Maria STOICA
Email: anamarias.stoica@ulbsibiu.ro

Autofiction and Multiple Identity – Dezrădăcinare by Sașa Zare

Abstract: This paper aims to do a close reading analysis of the tridimensional narrative experiment found in Sașa Zare’s debut novel Dezrădăcinare [Rootlessness] (2022). The alternation between character, narrator, and author seen at the narrative level of the novel starts a discussion about the autofictional prose written by Romanian contemporary writers, achieving at the same time to go beyond both national and gender boundaries. Frontier experiences, the theme of otherness, the awareness of what separates us and the damaging effects of a homophobic thinking are portrayed in Dezrădăcinare through multiple perspectives that are firstly analyzed by the narrator. Regarding transnational and World Literature, Zare’s discourse overpasses the limits of a debut novel and brings forward an important question How can we define ourselves in relation to the society we live in? If in the beginning the author-character is unsure of what she is doing, until the end of the novel Sașa is going to address problems regarding literature and criticism, misconceptions, patriarchy, and she will outline her idea about what does writing really mean for a contemporary woman writer.

Keywords: autofiction, self-narrative, transnational literature, contemporary literature, intersectionality, queerness.

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De la marginal la central: cartografii ale exportului în proza Tatianei Țîbuleac

Autor: Iulia-Maria VÎRBAN
Email: iulia.maria.virban@gmail.com

From Marginal to Central: Cartographies of Export in Tatiana Tibuleac’s Prose

Abstract: The intention of the present work is to demonstrate how an author can rescale himself in the local space thanks to literary agents (publishing houses, festivals, translations etc.), which have the role of emphasizing the value of his work that is willing to (re)win a literary bet precisely in the source culture, relying on a case study around the prose of Tatiana Țibuleac. The novelist gains symbolic capital abroad, on the one hand, because she gravitates between two peripheral spaces, Romania, respectively the Republic of Moldova, the second being subordinated to the first which has become a launching pad to the West, and, on the other hand, through the lens of its actual naturalization in France. What popularizes Tatiana Țîbuleac is not the reception of her novels in Romania, but the post-translation success justified by the attention later paid to the author by the Romanian press, considering the large volume of interviews mapped, most likely, in the wake of her journalistic career. The predilection for a writing of memory doubled by a hypersensitive dimension of an atrophied self or by the toxic frameworks of the relationship with a dysfunctional family – emergencies resolved only under the sign of the pathological, the case of the first novel. At the same time, the ideological panorama of a marginal culture, such as the Republic of Moldova, constrained between Soviet inflections, never completely purified, and the definition of an identity (not only national), as in the Glass Garden, but all of these are also possible causes of Tatiana Tîbuleac’s enrollment among international writers.

Keywords: World Literature, Tatiana Țîbuleac, transnational networks, poses of feminity, memory writing, the importance of translations

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