Graniţe, ficţiuni istorice şi literare. Studiu asupra reprezentărilor identitare în Sud-Estul Europei
Borders, Literary and Historical Fiction. A View on Identity Representations in the South-East of Europe

Summary/Abstract: The premise upon which the present study stands is that Romanian literature is a literary translinguistic system whose configuration is determined diachronically by the fractures occured in the political realm of the 20th century, such as World War I, the rise and fall of the Communist system, etc., which generated major changes all over Europe in terms of the borders of nation-states. The description of this system may make use of such concepts as microliterature and intra- and extra-territorial literature, which we have actually proposed and defined elsewhere [Diaconu, 2018]. For the proposed description of literature to be properly connected to reality and its concepts to be used effectively, a synthetic survey of the political background of Transylvania, Bassarabia, and Bukovina is necessary, focusing on the way in which writers viewed their relationship to the centre, to languages, and various other systems. The analysis of some new concepts (Transylvanism, Bukovinism, Moldovenism) is also needed as they render the phenomenon of oscillation between several centres, expressing the need for an identity, even for the construction of some specific traits depending on location but also on ideology. The present study addresses all of the above-mentioned topics.

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