Ideologising identities in the press in interwar Romania. The perusal of Floarea de foc magazine given by the Department of National Security Cover Image

Identități ideologizante în presa din România interbelică. Revista „Floarea de foc” în lectura Serviciului Siguranței Generale
Ideologising identities in the press in interwar Romania. The perusal of Floarea de foc magazine given by the Department of National Security

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu
Keywords: socio-criticism; ideologizing identities; socio-historical context; Floarea de foc magazine;

Summary/Abstract: The present work aims to focus on a number of articles selected by the interwar agents of the Department of National Security from the lines printed in Floarea de foc magazine, a magazine founded in Greater Romania, in the context of heterogeneous socio-political metamorphoses and the accelerated development of modern Romanian society. The present paper contributes to a qualitative analysis of how political power generated ideologizing identities in interwar publication texts. In order to diagnose the way in which the publication under the leadership of Sandu Tudor positioned itself in relation to the ideological and cultural imperatives of the time and to distinguish the nuances of the regimentation of journalists and intellectuals within the horizon of a political ideology, the analysis approached an interdisciplinary perspective, which would allow perceiving the distinction between the journalist’s language and the interwar Security Department agent’s language. Thus, we confronted the data obtained from the notes prepared by the interwar Security Department, found today in the files of the CNSAS Archive, with the information obtained from the set of articles published under the signature of the authors investigated by the state institutions, in order to penetrate beyond the objectives of the interwar Security Department work, which consisted in gathering different types of information. Also, the paper corroborated the intrinsic information obtained mainly from the textual analysis (at the semantic, syntactic and narrative level) with the extrinsic data (ideology, sociogram, social fields) provided, for the most part, from the socio-critical investigation of texts from the interwar press and Archive documents.

  • Issue Year: 14/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 17-30
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English, Romanian