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- Title
MIRRORED ANATOMIES OF A CULTURE: OLIVIA MANNING'S THE BALKAN TRILOGY.
- Authors
Goșa, Codruța Maria Cornelia G.
- Abstract
The paper investigates the way in which Romanians are seen and mirrored by both outsiders and insiders to the Romanian culture. The outsider-alien eye is represented by the author-narrator of the book and her equally foreign characters, while the insider-native eye belongs to Romanian student readership. Employing a mixed approach to research in my analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, and having a questionnaire as data collection instrument, I focus on the way in which students react to how Romanians are perceived by British foreigners in Olivia Manning's The Balkan Trilogy. The trilogy is based on the author's experience of living in Bucharest during the WWII as a wife of a British Council officer. The theoretical frame underpinning the study draws on reader-oriented theories and relies on culturally and historically rooted stereotypes and their reception. The research showed that the (largely stereotypical) and negative perceptions of the British author of the trilogy as put forth by her alter ego female character as well as other characters in the trilogy are not mirrored faithfully by student readership. Most of these perceptions are rejected by the majority of the respondents who either blatantly disagree with them or refrain to position themselves.
- Subjects
BUCHAREST (Romania); BRITISH Council; BRITISH authors; ANATOMY; ACQUISITION of data; CULTURE; NONCITIZENS
- Publication
Nasleđe, 2019, Issue 44, p185
- ISSN
1820-1768
- Publication type
Article