Traditions of Invention
Subtitle: Romanian Ethnic and Social Stereotypes in Historical Context
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789004252639
Subjects: National characteristics; Romania, social conditions
Description: Literary and cultural images, once considered marginal to the main currents of political and institutional development in southeastern Europe, have been accorded much greater importance by scholars in recent years. In this volume Alex Drace-Francis brings together over fifteen years of work on the topic of representations of Romania and Romanians. Crossing the East-West divide, the book studies both external images of the country and people, and domestically-generated representations of Europe and 'the West'. It draws on material in a wide range of languages and offers a long-term view, providing a nuanced and historically-grounded contribution to the lively debates over Balkanism, Orientalism and identities in Romania and in Europe as a whole.