TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ștefan Baghiu
AU  - Ovio Olaru
AU  - Andrei Terian
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631871478
TI  - Beyond the Iron Curtain
T2  - Revisiting the Literary System of Communist Romania
DO  - 10.3726/b19337
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1170758
N2  - Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to challenge some of the enduring clichés regarding the literary production of Romanian communism. The first section focuses on socialist realism, socialist modernism, representations of the rural, and rural modernity. The second section deals with literary cosmopolitanism, literary dissidence, countercultural literary production, minority literatures in Romania, and the relationship between genre fiction and state politics. The third section looks at the communist literary production from a transnational perspective, exploring the Romanian polysystem during the ideological thaw, as well as forms of literary dissidence across the Soviet bloc.
LA  - English
ER  -