LITERARY EXCHANGES BETWEEN ROMANIA AND CANADA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: YANN MARTEL AS A CASE IN POINT
LITERARY EXCHANGES BETWEEN ROMANIA AND CANADA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: YANN MARTEL AS A CASE IN POINT
Author(s): Ana Magdalena PetraruSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Canadian literature; Romanian reception; polysystem theory; Romanian discourse on translation; literary celebrity
Summary/Abstract: This paper overviews the literary exchanges between Romania and Canada which started almost a century ago and reached a new level in the age of globalisation. Drawing on the polysystem theory (Even-Zohar 1990, 2000), we will assess the role of Canadian literature in the Romanian cultural and literary polysystem in general, and of the successful author Yann Martel, and his masterpiece, Life of Pi, in particular. Also inspired by latest developments in Periodical Studies (Latham and Scholes 2006) and literary celebrity (Hammill 2007, York 2007), we will account for his novel and the 2012 film adaptation as received by Romanian publications in post-communism.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 07
- Page Range: 1187-1193
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English