IDENTITY DISCOURSE AND EUROPEANISM IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
IDENTITY DISCOURSE AND EUROPEANISM IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: This work proposes an analysis of how Romania constructed its national identity discourse, upon its participation in the 1867 Paris Exposition. It shows the relationship between the configuration of the national cultural image and the European culture in the second half of the 19th century. This first presence in a universal exposition, with its own pavilion, was the outcome of a complex diplomatic strategy, supported by cultural means. It also was a major proof of European behaviour, as forms of monographic knowledge and representation of a state were imported. We shall focus on how these forms were assimilated.

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