Romanian Literature as World Literature

• Main Author: Anamaria Mihăilă
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca 2018-07-01
• Series: Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory
• Online Access: http://www.metacriticjournal.com/article/99/romanian-literature-as-world-literature

The result of a collective project initiated by editors Christian Moraru, Mircea Martin and Andrei Terian, Romanian Literature as World Literature resets the level of critical debates approached through the current theoretical paths. Part of a series edition, this volume integrates Romanian Literature in a transnational/universal circuit, in which subjects, hierarchies, writers, translations function at different parameters. Also, the quality of “national” (be that culture or literature) is significant as long as it involves intersections and dialogs. Precisely, this collection of studies sustained by Bloomsbury Academic proposes alternative methodologies to discuss literature (postcolonialism, translation studies, world-system analysis), but it proves, as well, the possibility of a change in the “making” of literary history. If Andrei Terian used to argue against onehanded history in Critica de Export…, irrelevant because of his increased rank of subjectivity, the present volume can be seen as a manifesto for a collaborative work proposed by David Damrosch and Franco Moretti’s team examples.