Interimperialism under Nationalist Communism. Transylvania in the Works of Marta Petreu and Ádám Bodor
Interimperialism under Nationalist Communism. Transylvania in the Works of Marta Petreu and Ádám Bodor

Summary/Abstract: This paper revisits the concept of interimperiality as recurrently associated with Transylvania through the analysis of two novels set during the communist period: Ádám Bodor’s Zona Sinistra and Marta Petreu’s Acasă, pe cîmpia Armaghedonului. Focusing on a critical moment of identity formation, the study approaches Transylvania through the framework of assemblage theory. Within this perspective, communist rule does not erase inter-imperial legacies; rather, the socialist regime becomes another element within the Transylvanian assemblage. By juxtaposing a Hungarian and a Romanian perspective, the paper examines how communism attempts to suspend the region’s interimperial character, yet ultimately becomes a new layer of the palimpsest of its historical legacies.

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