THE FEMININE NARRATIVE OF THE EXILE: OLGA CRISTOLOVEANU
THE FEMININE NARRATIVE OF THE EXILE: OLGA CRISTOLOVEANU

Summary/Abstract: The article presents how the Romanian feminine identity was „written”, negotiated and performed by the Romanian emigres to the United States in the first half of the 20th century, taking as an example the case of soprano Olga Cristoloveanu. Almost unknown today, she created a double-articulated persona, that of the “allegoric Romania/woman clad in peasant attire”, and that of the modern, Romanian-American New Yorker, with extensive social skills for balancing the perception of her public persona, and, consequently, of the Romanian woman. Her activity as a self-appointed educator of the U.S. audience in Romanian traditional music and culture also reflects the way in which the representation of Romania was negotiated in the U.S. at the time.

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