VALETUDINARY INSULARIZATION. A RADIOGRAM OF AN OPPRESSIVE SOCIETY
VALETUDINARY INSULARIZATION. A RADIOGRAM OF AN OPPRESSIVE SOCIETY
Author(s): Maximiliana Ștefan (Miheț)Subject(s): Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: dystopia; totalitarianism; politics; communism; oppression; isolation;
Summary/Abstract: The totalitarian communist system has left its mark on Romanian society for over four decades. One of the harmful effects of this type of government was the insularization of the population and the extermination of the rebels. This article tries to highlight this type of insularization by exemplifying with four established novels. It can be seen that politics has acquired a spatial dimension that hosts the horrors and errors of the oppressive system. Approaching this technique, the authors offer negative utopias with hidden message or, in other words, political counter-utopias.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2021
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 1435-1442
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Romanian