Lecture 'Double-layered Marginality. Dana Dumitriu and Gabriela Adameșteanu as Historical Novelists'
- For whom
- Alumni , Employees , Students
- When
- 28-04-2022 from 17:00 to 18:00
- Where
- Livestream
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Department of Languages and Cultures (Ghent University) & School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (The University of Manchester)
- Contact
- Miglena.DikovaMilanova@UGent.be
The talk is part of the online seminar on 'Women in Balkan literature and culture: subversive readings and identity challenges'.
During the ideological Thaw, the Romanian fiction regains its interest in autonomous values by emphasising a-historical, ambiguous and ‘aesthetical’ forms, all meant to counterbalance the still-functional ideological constraint.
In this literary space, the historical novel, a traditionally prestigious and canonizing literary form, remains a rare and insolite genre: the historical themes are dangerously close to the political agenda of the censorship, and the realist frame seems too related to the ideological dogma of the recently abandoned realist socialism.