Importul de valori europene în literatura din Voivodina
The Importance of European Values in the Literature of Vojvodina

Summary/Abstract: The cultural European dimension of a country is a resource that needs to be capitalized upon and demonstrated to others. Some values of Voivodina’s Romanian culture are certainly European and have circulated as such beyond Serbia’s borders, however emphasizing the values of a people’s literature is the proper role of criticism. In order to promote through translations in a major European language the cultural works of Romanians from Serbia we need first to select the Romanian literary tendencies which resonate with European ones. Here we reach the linguistic barrier of the Banat dialect spoken by Romanians in Serbia but also the issue of a work’s intrinsic quality, entitling it to be translated in another European language. The European integration process tends to level or to create hierarchies of values, and in our case it is only very seldom that a work written in Voivodina comes to be translated into a world circulation language. It is rather translated into the country’s language (Serbian or another of ex-Yugoslavia’s languages) or into the languages of the national minorities living here.

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