Ideology, Defencelessness and Power Control in the Transylvanian Literary and Cultural Policy of the Last Decades Cover Image

Ideológia, kiszolgáltatottság és hatalomgyakorlás az elmúlt fél évszázad erdélyi irodalom- és kultúrpolitikájában
Ideology, Defencelessness and Power Control in the Transylvanian Literary and Cultural Policy of the Last Decades

Author(s): László Szilárd Szilveszter
Subject(s): Civil Society, Romanian Literature, History of Communism, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: communist ideology; power control; literary discourse; cultural policy; community life;

Summary/Abstract: Regarding the characteristics of literary discourse and cultural policy of the Post-World War II years, it can be clearly stated that the newly established communist power in Romania, already in the second half of the 1940s, gained control over all manifestations of community life, and it regulated all aspects of culture and arts, banned, abolished or restructured all forums having some independence; it completely revised the literary and artistic canon, and, at the same time, sought to develop a new ideological/political space that would serve its own interests only. This paper aims to present the ideological/political and aesthetic/poetic tendencies determining Transylvanian Hungarian literature and cultural policy from the mid-’40s until the present day.

  • Issue Year: XX/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 65-80
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Hungarian