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The Autobiography of the Other: powers of literary transference
Pia Brinzeu (University of Temisoara)
Europeanness: Connecting East and WestIn a context of massive global changes - political, social, geographical, and cultural -, amid the accelerating instabilities of value, meaning, and identity, the fundamental European parameters which connect the various cultures of the continent become more and more interesting. It seems that while national tensions and tribal mentalities are on the increase, there is also a tendency to re-think history and culture from a trans-national point of view. Fiction written in Britain and Romania after the fall of the Iron Curtain demonstrates that writers are more and more aware of a common " Europeanness", which doubles their national identity. Although present-day economic and political conditions do no favour an integration into a united Europe, the project becomes feasible on a cultural level. It is a Europe of the spirit that both the British and the Romanian writers fight for and that will be analyzed in the present paper.
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