The Romanian Post-Avant-Gardes. Between Influence and Equivalence
The Romanian Post-Avant-Gardes. Between Influence and Equivalence

Summary/Abstract: For the better part of the last three decades, Romanian poetry has undergone a series of mutations that led to the recovery of the interwar avant-garde, both in terms of poetic discursive strategies and in the militant rhetoric of its manifestoes. Although the first avant-garde influences date back to the 60ies, with a major iteration in the 70ies and the 80ies, because of the socio-cultural context of these periods we can only speak of a formal influence of the avant-garde. This paper intends to analyse how the Romanian poetry of the 2000s is the first true iteration of the inter-war avant-garde that accomplished a stylistic, thematic, and ideological literary recovery, in a way that could not have been possible in communist-era Romania. For this, the study will assess the socio-cultural context of Romanian post-communist transition and its influence on the contemporary literary structures and institutions, while also drawing parallels between the avant-garde and the contemporary programmatic literary discourses.

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