Andreea Mironescu- PhD
- Senior Researcher at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Andreea Mironescu
- PhD
- Senior Researcher at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
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I am a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania. My scholarly interests cover Romanian and comparative literature, critical theory, as well as cultural and memory studies with an emphasis on postcommunism and gendered memories. My current research deals with the novel of memory as a national and world genre, focusing on its representations in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Eastern Europe.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE MEMORY NOVELS PUBLISHED IN THE ROMANIAN SPACE (1990–2022)
This article offers the first bibliography of the memory novels published in the Romanian literary space between 1990–2022. The novel of memory is a literary genre with a global spread, and at the same time a prominent national (sub)genre, spanning from postcolonial soci...
Pentru a arunca lumină asupra îndelungatei și complicatei tovărășii enunțate în titlul nostru, e util, credem, să pornim de la constatarea unui paradox metodologic: deși convingerea critici-lor, atât în comunism, cât și după 1989, a fost că sub totalitarism literatura a suplinit parțial rolul științelor sociale, aflate atunci sub strict control pol...
This article sets out to present the design and output of the research project MEMORO: The Novel of Memory in Postcommunism: Subgenres, Generations, Transnational Networks. The project aimed at providing a qualitative and quantitative research of the novel of memory in the Romanian literary field after 1989, using recent theories and methodologies...
This article argues for a rethinking of how we label the diversity of subgenres that have emerged in the postcolonial and post-Cold War world within the global genre of the novel, with the so-called memory turn and its aftermath. We identify the memory novel as one of the most important genres in contemporary global literature, and we zoom in on it...
https://edituratact.ro/colectii/colectia-de-strada/alex-goldis-christian-moraru-andrei-terian-pentru-o-noua-cultura-critica-romaneasca/
„Pentru o nouă cultură critică românească” este o carte-manifest al cărei obiectiv prim este de a evalua și a transforma cultura critică naţională. Cum, în ce condiţii materiale și cu ce efecte cognitive și politic...
The article explores the conditions necessary for a narrative recounting of past events to become memorable and incorporated into collective memory. The analysis is focused on the role played by artistic remediations in creating such memorability. In Romania, as well as in other East Central European countries, the production of memorability and th...
This article explores multilingual publishing by analyzing the journals in the language and linguistics established in the last seven decades in CEE countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Poland, and Slovakia) and currently indexed in Web of Science. Compared with other academic semi-peripheries like Latin...
"Generations, Contemporaneity, and Intersectionality in Literary History. While several traditional concepts of literary history, including literary periods, periodization itself, and genre, have been recently put into question and reframed in transnational, cross-temporal, and transdisciplinary ways, the notion of generation has received much less...
Cu toate că sintagma "roman al memoriei" are ocurențe relativ numeroase în bibliografia globală a studiilor literare, cu referire la subgenuri narative și autori din spații geografice și culturale îndepărtate și extrem de diferite, 1 până acum majoritatea cercetărilor care își propun să definească și să stabilizeze structural și conceptual acest ge...
In this chapter I discuss the cultural production of masculinity in Romanian literature during communism, focusing on the socialist modernist novel and on one particular author from the Sixties Generation, Nicolae Breban. First, I argue for an urgent gendered reading of the Romanian novel under communism; second, I explore how masculinity is produc...
This article offers a triangular reading of a contemporary Romanian novel, namely Simona Sora’s Complaisance. Ascension in the orthopaedics ward/A guest for life (2020), in the frame of epistemological pluralism. To this end, each of the three co-authors opted for different epistemological perspectives, spanning memory studies, ethics, and literary...
This article studies the fictionalization of late Eastern-European socialism in contemporary Romania, namely the literary projection of the 1980s in Mircea Cărtărescu’s autofictional novel Solenoid (2015). The novel is an ample, paranoid, metaphysical, and counterfactual autobiography that uses a late-communist backdrop to create a metaphorically s...
In the last four decades, the novel of memory has gained momentum on the world scene, taking advantage of the collapse of colonial and/or dictatorial regimes around the globe. Romania was not an exception, so after the fall of Communism in 1989, and more prominently at the beginning of the new millennium, this subgenre blossomed. Based on quantitat...
The authors explore the representations of the child and childhood which emerged in post-communist Romania, with a clear focus on literary works. The paper proposes a triadic typology of literary remembrance by distinguishing between the allegorical, experiential, and metamodern modes of remembering childhood. They also assess the political implica...
This article sets out to critically discuss the promise and challenges of adopting interdisciplinarity in the humanistic disciplines and especially in the postcommunist countries of East-Central Europe. The adoption of methods and concepts from other disciplines is not always an easy task and does not automatically ensure an effective international...
Drawing on Jan Assmann’s concept of cultural memory and Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory, this article examines how personal recollections of Mihai Eminescu’s life (1850-1889) entered the Romanian cultural and literary circuit. At the time of his death, Eminescu’s prestige as a „national poet” was already established, thence at this moment pr...
În acest articol îmi propun să urmăresc modul în care istoria literară românească, pe care o înțeleg atât ca disciplină, cât și ca praxis, a integrat specii non-ficționale și, prin extensie, non-literare, precum cronici istoriografice, traduceri religioase, eseuri, jurnale sau memorii. Am caracterizat acest tip de forme textuale ca "hibride", ele m...
The centrality of Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889) in the Romanian collective imaginary has been repeatedly acknowledged in the last one hundred years. His figure-and to less extent his poetic and journalistic work-enabled the proliferation of a wide gallery of cultural, political, and literary myths, which collided with one another and inspired vivid de...
The first part of my article briefly discusses the main theories of intermediacy by differentiating between “processional” and “ontological” understanding of the concept. Despite inherent differences (especially terminological), many theorists (from the Russian Formalists to the 21st century researchers of the topic) tend to consider film as the in...
Drawing on concepts such as post-genocide literature, postmemory (Marianne Hirsch), and resonance (Aleida Assmann), this paper discusses a third-generation narrative of the Armenian genocide, namely Varujan Vosganian’s novel The Book of Whispers, originally published in Romania in 2009. The first section of the paper examines whether the concepts o...
The present research starts from the following questions: Is the interdisciplinarity of science projects different from the interdisciplinarity of arts & humanities projects? Can the indicators of interdisciplinary science projects be correlated with the indicators of interdisciplinary arts & humanities projects? What are the most pertinent indicat...
In Romania and other East-European countries, post-communism is either seen as a period of voluntary oblivion, or, on the contrary, as a time of directional recollection, imposed by the canon of critically remembering "bad" communism as opposed to a nostalgia-filled "good" one. Trying to move past this false distinction, the first part of this pape...
This paper makes a case for studying the processes of intercultural transfer between Romania, the Republic of Moldova, and, adjacently, the USSR/The Russian Federation, focusing mainly on the postcommunist period. Using the methodology elaborated by Michel Espagne (Espagne 1987; 2013), I suggest a more open reading of Romanian-language Bessarabian...
This study deals with the paradoxical views of Romanian essayist Paul Zarifopol (1874-1934) on biography, and especially with portrait and photography as ways to mediate one's personality. Starting with Zarifopol's open rejection of self-presentation, and referring to his opinions on the use of the biographical method in literary criticism, we disc...
Paul Zarifopol (1874-1934) could be described as a notable case of misreading in the field of Romanian literary history. Although allotted generous space in most histories of Romanian literature (from E. Lovinescu to G. Cǎlinescu and Nicolae Manolescu), Zarifopol is often presented as an "anticlassical" literary critic, with no particular method an...
