Open AccessCanonul occidental din Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1990-2020 de Mihai Iovănel
Author(s) -
Cosmin Borza
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
transilvania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 0255-0539
DOI - 10.51391/trva.2021.07-08.14
Subject(s) - romanian , legitimacy , order (exchange) , humanities , function (biology) , history , sociology , art , political science , philosophy , law , linguistics , politics , finance , evolutionary biology , biology , economics
This paper focuses on the strategies enacted by Mihai Iovănelʼs History in order to map the transnational interactions of contemporary Romanian literature. Since Iovănel emphasizes that, starting with the 2000s, the Romanian writers define themselves mainly through the global networks in which they try to integrate, this article aims to analyse: a) the canonical function acquired by the local references to World Literature; b) their explanatory role compared to the one played by the closed circuit of the so-called “intra-national” comparisons; c) the theoretical legitimacy of the “transnational canon” projected by Iovănel in the epilogue of his History.