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Across and beyond the Islamic Mediterranean. Bausani’s concepts of ‘Islamic languages’ and ‘Islamic literature’ and their relevance in times of global studies
Full text linkThis article discusses the present relevance and recent revival of an ambitious, pioneering project launched more than half a century ago by the distinguished Italian Islamicist Alessandro Bausani (1921-88), namely his case for a comparative literature of Islamic languages. After examining the meanings and implications of these concepts, I address some of the criticisms they have attracted, including charges of essentialism and culturalism. Their current relevance is further discussed with regard to both premodern and contemporary Islam, by considering some of the recent developments and readjustments of this theoretical framework by scholars working in the footsteps of Bausani. Special attention is devoted to studies focusing on the emic dimension of Islamic languages and literatures or, in other words, on the presence of similar notions in the linguistic imagination and ideologies of both premodern and contemporary Muslims
Imaginarul violenței în romanele lui Radu Pavel Gheo Noapte bună, copii! și Disco titanic
Full text linkRadu Pavel Gheo’s novels Good Night, Children! [Noapte bună, copiii!] and Disco Titanic are connected on the structural level, but also by the time of action, atmosphere, some episodic characters and topography – the Banat and the ex-Yugoslav space. Both novels deal with the theme of violence (although from different perspectives), both institutional and individual (subjective and objective), and a series of violent deaths (murders, suicides, accidents) drives the action towards its end
Estetizând violența totalitară: istoria alegorică a comunismului în poezia românească subversivă
Full text linkThe aim of the present research is to outline a subversive history of communism in Romania by commenting on a series of allegorical clippings from the autochthonous Aesopian poetry, assimilated as places of memory, in order to reveal how the collective trauma was artistically filtered and discursively encrypted to become accessible only to a specialized interpretive community, sensitive to the ratio between the explicit and the implicit meaning of language
Acasă, pe Cîmpia Armaghedonului di Marta Petreu
Full text linkMarta Petreu’s At Home, on the Plain of Armageddon (2011) tells the story of a Transylvanian peasant family in the 20th century, blending autobiography and fiction. The novel begins with the funeral of Mica (Maria), mother of protagonist Tabita. Mica’s marriage to Ticu (Agustin), a devout Jehovah’s Witness, is unhappy: Mica grows hard and resentful, while Ticu finds solace in his belief in the Second Coming. Through this family’s intimate struggles, Petreu reflects on the larger history of Transylvania, religious conversion, and the burdens of faith. The novel is a poignant exploration of the tensions within family, faith, and human resilience
Invented Genealogies, Forgotten Genealogies, Repressed Genealogies, Recovered Genealogies. A Survey About the Romanian Genealogical Knowledge
Full text linkI will try, in the following lines, to present a brief history of Romanian genealogical knowledge and the successive losses that have marked it. In my view, these losses, these successive mournings influence even today the way we relate to our own ancestors and, more broadly, the way we relate to the memory of the community and to each other
Ruxandra Câmpeanu, Dincolo de regulile jocului: trepte și limite ale compromisului intelectual în perioada 1948-1964: Mihai Ralea, G. Călinescu și Tudor Vianu, Corint, Bucureşti 2022
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Hélène Vacaresco pour les siens. Une histoire d’héritage, dette et culpabilité
Full text linkThe text proposes an analysis of the destiny and activity of Elena Văcărescu, the last descendant of the “family of poets” considered to be the founder of Romanian culture – as an exemplary illustration of how a creative life can be affected, in its entirety, by accepting a legacy. From the first moment when, still a teenager, she begins to write verses in French and sees herself sanctioned, through an anathema, by Eminescu, as an unworthy heir – and until the end of her career as a poet in France (distinguished twice with the Award of the French Academy), Elena will only deepen, always reformulating, the consciousness of guilt towards herfamily, and, through it, towards Romania. This guilt makes her never be able to project herself in relation to her native country, other than in the modest positions of “messenger” and cultural “mediator”, while her adopted country enshrines her as a “poet”
«Héritiers en mal d’ancêtres». L’art des archives et le récit de filiation
Full text linkThis article proposes an analysis of several photo projects by visual artist Andrei Nacu, who works with photography, the family album, and the family archive to rework experiences from the past. Simultaneously, it reflects on the interactions between image, history, and memory. The analysis employs the vocabulary of filiation, transmission, and inheritance commonly used in the humanities and the social sciences to understand contemporary ways of mourning related to catastrophes of the 20th century