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- Title
Self-Censorship (of the Pre-Emptive Kind): English-written Discourses as a Lens into Romanian Self-Identification.
- Authors
Colăcel, Onoriu
- Abstract
In the aftermath of the Great War, the view of the English-speaking world on the Balkans posed a challenge to Romanian self-identification patterns. English-language memoirs by US servicemen and that of Marie, Queen of Romania, capture the spirit of the times. They spell out, on the one hand, the conviction that the Romanian kingdom was part and parcel of a new, thoroughly Balkanized Europe, and demonstrate, on the other hand, how the path forward for a new-found home country can be shaped. Their stories feature the Romanians as yet another imagined community in the making, a nation whose identity is otherized as a marginal offshoot of emerging national traditions in the Balkans. In the process, they reveal productive censorship and self-censorship on a discursive scale commonly seen in colonial matrices of power.
- Subjects
BALKAN Peninsula; ROMANIA; CENSORSHIP; IMPERIALISM; MARIE, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938
- Publication
Caietele Echinox, 2020, Vol 39, p105
- ISSN
1582-960X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/cechinox.2020.39.08