From Capitalist Aspirations to the National Project. The Inter-Imperial Transylvanian Compromise

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Ovio Olaru
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In the present article, I address two novelistic productions set in late 19th century and early 20th century Transylvania, discussing the different intersections of class, ethnicity, and culture underlying the constructed image of Empire in the periphery. Drawing on Manuela Boatcă and Anca Pârvulescu’s work on Transylvanian inter-imperiality – borrowed, in turn, from Laura Doyle –, the paper discusses Ioan Slavici’s Mara and Liviu Rebreanu’s Forest of the Hanged as stages of imperial downfall. The main argument is that, whereas Mara and other similar works present the interclass and interethnic conflict as negotiable compromise functioning as narrative momentum for the novelistic plot, the compromise comes undone in Forest of the Hanged, where the capitalist aspirations of the former work is put aside in the forging of national identity.
从资本主义的愿望到国家计划。特兰西瓦尼亚帝国内部的妥协
在这篇文章中,我讲述了两部以19世纪末和20世纪初特兰西瓦尼亚为背景的小说作品,讨论了阶级、种族和文化的不同交叉点,这些交叉点是帝国在外围构建的形象的基础。该论文借鉴了马努埃拉·博阿奇和安卡·佩武列斯库关于特兰西瓦尼亚帝国间的著作——反过来又借鉴了劳拉·道尔的著作——讨论了伊安·斯拉维奇的《玛拉》和利维乌·雷布雷努的《绞刑林》作为帝国衰落的阶段。主要论点是,尽管马拉和其他类似作品将阶级间和种族间的冲突呈现为可协商的妥协,作为小说情节的叙事动力,但这种妥协在《绞刑林》中被推翻了,在那里,前一部作品的资本主义愿望在国家身份的塑造中被搁置一边。
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Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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