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017 .. $o OCoLC $a 910845600 $d 20170123
020 .. $a 9783653058123
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245 1. $a Postcolonial readings of Romanian identity narratives $d Texte électronique $f Onoriu Colăcel
260 .. $a Frankfurt am Main $a New York $c Peter Lang $d [2015]
280 .. $a 1 online resource
330 .. $a The book offers a view of national self-identification in the literary culture of
twentieth century Romania with a special focus on the postcolonial paradigm. Romanian
identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country's past and the colonial
past goes unmentioned in the country's historiography and popular culture. However,
the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national self-identification in modern
Romanian culture. The author analyses how Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania
and later Romanian historical fiction establish notions such as hybridity and cultural
ov.
829 .. $a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. The Romanian Quest for Identity: Culture-bound
Storytelling and Postcolonialism; 1.1. Identity versus Identification in Narrative
Reporting on National Feeling; 1.2. Nationalism and Literary Image Studies: Romanian
Narratives of Self-identification; 1.3. Postcolonialism and Modern Romanian Literary
Culture; 2. Documenting the Language of Indictment; 2.1. English-written (Self-)Identification
in Storytelling about Romania; 2.2. The Ethnonym in Romanian Self-identification;
2.3. The Constructedness of Indictment in Public Storytelling
829 .. $a 3. The British Take on What Natives Want4. The American Take on What Natives Want;
5. What Foreigners Want: Decolonising the Country; 5.1. Competing Ethnic Histories
in Early 20th-century Romania; 5.2. Fictions and Memories about Making the Nation;
5.3. The Decolonized Present of Historical Novels in After Me, a Day .... and The
Forgerers; 6. Westernization as a Culture-Bound Narrative; 7. Bibliography
