Avangarda literară românească. Conexiuni transnaționale
The Romanian Literary Avant-Garde. Transnational Connections

Summary/Abstract: Emerging in the literary space a century before transnationalism became a topic of discussion in relation to globalization, the avant-garde’s aims and practices displayed extra-national tendencies. This paper aims to emphasize the transnational character of the Romanian literary avant-garde, particularly those aspects that demonstrate how the experimental literary movements that reunited under the Romanian avant-garde umbrella manifested themselves as network-type phenomena that acted across national, linguistic and cultural borders. The paper will also investigate cultural practices that significantly contributed to creating interliterary networks and, consequently, the avant-garde transnational space. The article draws upon recent studies on literary transnationalism as analytical tools in order to develop a critical perspective on the historical Romanian literary avant-garde. The transnational approach intends to provide a new way of understanding these literary movements, which is different from the national point of view that we find in the history of Romanian literature. Considering that the avant-garde’s transnationalism cannot be completely understood only in the light of the unilateral relation centre-periphery, the present article shows that a bilateral and dynamic relationship defines the Romanian avant-garde connections and the centres of the international avant-garde. Moreover, it draws attention to inter-peripheral relations at regional level. Through the creative appropriation of the new aesthetics originating in the centre of transnational collaborative practices, the Romanian avant-garde contributed to the avant-garde project with authentic poetics and innovative artistic techniques. These marginal creative contributions made a noticeable impact on the centre, thereby influencing the avant-garde movement’s history.

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