Black Sea as space of contrasts: from political death camp to communist tourist paradise
Black Sea as space of contrasts: from political death camp to communist tourist paradise

Author(s): Roxana Elena Doncu
Contributor(s): Yordan Ljuckanov (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Architecture, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Studies of Literature, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Romanian Literature, 19th Century, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
ISSN: 2815-5424
Published by: Сдружение „Транспонтика“
Keywords: Romanian literature, cinema and music; Dobrudja; domestication of sea
Summary/Abstract: This study traces the development of literary and cultural imagination of the Black Sea from a Romanian perspective. The Black Sea made its appearance relatively late in the Romanian literary and cultural imagination: among the Romantics of the ’48 generation (Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Vasile Alecsandri) and also in the poetry of Mihai Eminescu (late Romanticism). It drew either on the Orientalism of the Ottoman Empire (which, for the progressive Generation of Forty-eighters, represented oppression), or on the figure of the exiled Ovid, a symbol of Roman continuity in the East, with Latin culture functioning as a symbol of adherence to Western values and attitudes. These two – contradictory – meanings attributed to the Black Sea continue to exist and generate paradoxes in the literature, music and cinema of the communist period.

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