Rereading Norman Manea: The Imaginary Mapping of his Works

Imbued with the nostalgia for "Romania of the mind" as reflected by the metaphor of "snail's house" the literary works addressed in our paper deal with a pervading acuteness of exilic consciousness of trans-location superseding the ambiguous ethnic (Jewish-Romanian-American)...

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Published inStudii de biblioteconomie şi ştiinţa informării no. 18; pp. 115 - 122
Main Author Nicolaescu, Brîndusa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universitatea din Bucuresti, Colectivul de Stiinte ale Informarii si Documentarii 2014
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Letters, Department of Information and Documentation Sciences
Subjects
Literary Texts
migration and literature
documentary value
fictional mapping
identity
(re)reading
exile
geography of literature
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Summary:Imbued with the nostalgia for "Romania of the mind" as reflected by the metaphor of "snail's house" the literary works addressed in our paper deal with a pervading acuteness of exilic consciousness of trans-location superseding the ambiguous ethnic (Jewish-Romanian-American). We attempt to follow the narrative/historical trajectories on the imaginary maps Manea's works entail, bearing in mind such concepts as "literary geography" "spatial imagination" or "projected spaces in fiction" based on (re)reading his texts with a special focus on the documentary value of (re)location.
ISSN:2392-8107
1453-5386