IDENTITIES IN MIGRATION: ANGLOPHONE WRITERS IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIA
IDENTITIES IN MIGRATION: ANGLOPHONE WRITERS IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIA
Author(s): Mihaela MudureSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Richard Proctor; Philip Ó Ceallaigh; post-communism; picaro; irony; humour ugliness; misery; humour; kitchen sink realism.
Summary/Abstract: Identities in Migration: Anglophone Writers in Contemporary Romania. This essay analyzes the work of two Anglophone writers (Richard Procter and Philip Ó Ceallaigh) who chose to live in Romania and write about Romania. Proctor’s novel Heistberg is a picaresque story whose background is the Romanian transition from communism to capitalism. Ó Ceallaigh’s short story collection revisits the kitchensink realism of the 1950’s in order to catch the ugliness and the sordidness of post-communist realities. Most of Ó Ceallaigh’s stories are placed in those dormitory neighbourhoods of Bucharest built by the Ceausescu regime in order to give shelter to the working class.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Philologia
- Issue Year: 60/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 197-209
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English