Rereading Norman Manea: The Imaginary Mapping of his Works
Rereading Norman Manea: The Imaginary Mapping of his Works
Author(s): Brîndusa NicolaescuSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Universitatea din Bucuresti, Colectivul de Stiinte ale Informarii si Documentarii
Keywords: (re)reading; documentary value; migration and literature; geography of literature; fictional mapping; exile; identity
Summary/Abstract: Imbued with the nostalgia for "Romania of the mind" as reflected by the metaphor of "snail's house" the literary works addressed in our paper deal with a pervading acuteness of exilic consciousness of trans-location superseding the ambiguous ethnic (Jewish-Romanian-American). We attempt to follow the narrative/historical trajectories on the imaginary maps Manea's works entail, bearing in mind such concepts as "literary geography" "spatial imagination" or "projected spaces in fiction" based on (re)reading his texts with a special focus on the documentary value of (re)location.
Journal: Studii de Biblioteconomie şi Ştiinţa Informării
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 18
- Page Range: 115-122
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English