IMMIGRANT ELITES IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN CULTURES DURING THE 20TH CENTURY
IMMIGRANT ELITES IN SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN CULTURES DURING THE 20TH CENTURY
Author(s): Dumitru-Mircea BudaSubject(s): Croatian Literature, Czech Literature, Other Language Literature, Migration Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Editura University Press, Universitatea de Medicina, Farmacie, Stiinte si Tehnologie “George Emil Palade” din Targu Mures
Keywords: immigrant elites; abolition; exile in literature; identity;
Summary/Abstract: The cultural and existential crisis of exile entails, above all, an abolition of time and space, a location outside of their identity. In a sort of ”transculturality”, in Milan Kundera’s words, or, simultaneously, in two cultures at the same time. And the condition of exile, a wandering, remains the key status of the the writer, who is a traveler par excellence. A prophet that must carry into the world and into history his message, sentenced to mobility
Journal: Acta Marisiensis. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 26-36
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English