IS THERE A WOMAN IN THE TEXT? THE GHOST OF MÂNJOALĂ’S INN
IS THERE A WOMAN IN THE TEXT? THE GHOST OF MÂNJOALĂ’S INN

Summary/Abstract: Is There a Woman in the Text? The Ghost of Mânjoală’s Inn. Caragiale’s story Mânjoală’s Inn decodes the situation of women in a patriarchal society, what Simone de Beauvoir calls the prison bars of “femininity” enforced by law and custom. The peripheral status of the inn establishes a socially cohesive space vis-à-vis Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s recent mishap in a New York hotel. Within a literary comparative context, the story and the incident offer a register of feminine voices that speak about communal identity, shared experience, and a collective past. From a faraway land of silent voices or from a more immediate space, the two heroines invite the reader to discover and to make them alive with new possibilities. So, the questions I intend to explore are, who are these women and what do their stories tell us.

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