DATA / DATE
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TEMA / TOPIC
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BIBLIOGRAFIA / READINGS
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18 Feb. 2020
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1.
Studiile culturale pe harta conceptuală a abordărilor literaturii / Cultural
Studies on the mind map of approaches to literature
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(Ex)curs introductiv:
Categorii principale de abordări ale literaturii și locul ocupat de studiile
culturale. Fenomenul literar și contexte extraliterare, convenții culturale
și comunități interpretative creator de sensuri. / Introduction: Cultural
Studies and the Main Approaches to Literature. The literary phenomenon ant
the meaning-creating extraliterary contexts, cultural conventions and
interpretive communities.
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25 Feb. 2020
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2.
Studiile culturale: context și agendă, metodologie, vocabular critic /
Cultural Studies: context & agenda, methodology, critical vocabulary
(eo-/post-marxism, M. Foucault & post-structuralism, J. Lacan) |
Lectură obligatorie (minimală)
/ Mandatory Readings:
- „Cultural Studies”
din The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary
Criticism and Theory, editat de Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, The
Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- „Deconstruction”,
„Discourse”, „Foucault, Michel” și „Lacan, Jacques” din The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, ed. de
Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, The Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
- Stuart Hall,
„Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies”.
- Mircea Martin,
„Cultural Studies – There and Here”, Euresis
2014, pag. 180-186.
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3 Mar. 2020
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3.
Constructivism și critica
postcolonială în studiile identității culturale / Constructivism and
postcolonial criticism in the study of cultural identity
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Benedict Anderson, Comunităţi imaginate, Bucureşti:
Editura Integral, 2000 (Cap. 1. Introducere și 3. Originile conștiintei
naționale).
- „Postcolonial
Cultural Studies” din The Johns Hopkins
Guide to Literary Criticism and Theory, editat de Michael Groden and
Martin Kreiswirth, The Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Edward Said, Orientalism. Concepţiile occidentale
despre Orient, Timişoara: Editura Amarcord, 2001, pag. 293-337.
- Bogdan Ștefănescu, Patrii din cuvinte, EUB 2017, pag.
82-95.
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10 Mar. 2020
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4.
Formule alternative ale construcției identitare în literatura română / Alternative formulas for indentity
construction in Romanian literature
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Analiză de text: Eminescu, „Scrisoarea III”; Emil Cioran, Schimbarea la față a României (Cap.
III „Golurile psihologice și istorice ale României”); Lucian Blaga, Spațiul mioritic; Tudor Arghezi,
„Testament”; Constantin Noica, „Ardealul în spiritualitatea
românească”/„Ahoretia” (Spiritul
românesc în cumpătul vremii); Geo Dumitrescu, „Inscripție pe piatra de
hotar”.
- Bogdan Ștefănescu,
„Peace Talks: Indexical Master Tropes and Their Potential for Conflict in the
Construction of National Identity”, ESSACHESS.
Journal for Communication Studies, vol. 10, no. 1(19) / 2017, pag. 11-31.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Horia-Roman
Patapievici, Cerul văzut prin lentilă,
Nemira 1995, pag. 83-100.
- Bogdan Ștefănescu, Patrii din cuvinte, EUB 2017, pag.
112-116, 124-127, 136-141, 149-154.
- François Hartog, The Mirror of Herodotus, Univ.of
California Press, 1988, pag. 209-259.
- Dusan I. Bjelic &
Obrad Savic (eds.), Balkan as Metaphor,
MIT Press, 2002.
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17 Mar. 2020
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5.
Orientalism
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Edward Said, Orientalism. Concepţiile occidentale
despre Orient, Timişoara: Editura Amarcord, 2001, pag. 13-61.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- „Said, Edward W.” din
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary
Criticism and Theory, editat de Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth, The
Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
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24 Mar. 2020
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6.
Postcolonialismul și studiile culturale și imagologice ale Europei
Centrale și Estice: balcanism, postcomunism, (semi)periferiile Europei /
Postcolonialism and cultural and imagological studies of Central and Eastern
Europe: balkanism, postcommunism, European (semi)peripheries
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Lectură obligatorie / Mandatory
Readings:
- Maria Todorova, Balcanii şi balcanismul, Bucureşti:
Humanitas, 2000, pag. 35-41, 69-102.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Larry Wolff, Inventarea Europei de Est. Harta
civilizaţiei în Epoca Luminilor, Humanitas, 2000, pag. 15-34.
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31 Mar. 2020
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7.
Orientalismul și reverberațiile lui în literatura română / Orientalism
and its reverberations in Romanian literature
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
Analiză de text: Mircea Eliade, Maytrei, Ed. Cartex 2000,
2016.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Milica Bakić-Hayden, “Nesting Orientalism: The Case of Former Yugoslavia”, Slavic
Review 54. 4 (1995), pag. 917–931.
- Romanița Constantinescu, „Pitorescul colonial” (Pași pe graniță. Studii despre imaginarul
românesc al frontierei, Polirom, 2009, pag. 85-91).
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7 Apr. 2020
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8.
Complexul subalternității în cultura română: minorat, marginalitate,
(auto)colonialitate / The subalternity complex in Romanian culture: minority,
marginality, (self-)colonization
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Mircea Martin, G. Călinescu și „complexele” literaturii
române, Ed. Albatros, 1981, pag. 13-57.
- Alexander Kiossev,
„Notes on Self-colonising Cultures”, Art
and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, Ed. de B. Pejic. & D. Elliott,
Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1999, pag. 114-8.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Benjamin Fondane, Imagini și cărți din Franța (1922,
Prefață); Eugen Ionescu, Nu; Luca
Pițu, Sentimentul românesc al urii de
sine.
- Sorin Alexandrescu, Identitate în ruptură, Ed. Univers,
2000, pag. 27-42.
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21 Apr. 2020
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9.
Bătălii pentru capital/putere simbolic(ă)
în România postcomunistă / Struggles over symbolic capital/power in
postcommunist Romania
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Katherine Verdery, National Ideology under Socialism :
Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania, pag. 302-318
(„Conclusion”).
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Sorin Adam Matei, Boierii mintii. Intelectualii romani intre
grupurile de prestigiu și piața liberă a ideilor, Ed. Compania,
Bucuresti, 2004.
- Mircea Mihăieș,
„Oierii minții”, România literară
nr. 15/2005.
Sorin Adam Matei &
Mona Momescu (eds.), Idolii forului: De
ce o clasă de mijloc a spiritului este de preferat „elitei” intelectualilor
publici, Corint, 2010.
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28 Apr. 2020
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10.
Postcolonialism românesc: contribuții critice și percepții publice /
Romanian postcolonialism: critical contributions and public perception
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Lectură obligatorie /
Mandatory Readings:
- Bogdan Ștefănescu,
„Viză respinsă. Anevoioasele călătorii teoretice dintre lumea postcolonială
şi cea postcomunistă”, Dus-întors. Rute
ale teoriei literare în modernitate, ed. de Oana Fotache, Magda Răduță,
Adrian Tudurachi, Humanitas, 2016.
Lectură suplimentară /
Additional Readings:
- Monica Bottez, Alina
Botez, Maria-Sabina Draga-Alexandru, Ruxandra Rădulescu, Bogdan Ştefănescu şi
Ruxandra Vişan, Postcolonialism/Postcommunism. Dictionary of Key Cultural Terms, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2011.
- Euresis: Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles, 2005.
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An MA course for the British Cultural Studies and the Comparative Politics Programmes, University of Bucharest
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course offers a comparative perspective on postcolonialism and postcommunism against the epistemic background of late modernity/postmodernity, an age when the old political and economic scaffolding of both capitalist and communist empires collapses only to give way to new forms of domination. Hence, the course treats former colonies and former satellite communist states as siblings of subalter(n)ity. The aim is to highlight generic and structural similarities between traumatized post-imperialist cultures, on the one hand, and historical and ideological differences, on the other. Also, I am expecting that, by the end of the course, students will be able to import some methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism into the study of postcommunism, as well as to use postcommunist scholarship as an ideological moderator for the hegemonic first/third-world-oriented discourses in postcolonialism.
While theoretical and methodological reflexivity is thoroughly pursued in the various sessions, efforts are made to offer a lively picture of postcommunist discourse in Romania by means of memorable and stylistically consummate texts by foremost Romanian authors. They are always to be approached contrastively, with a view to the aims outlined above.
The agenda of this course is to rekindle the militant relevance and political involvement of cultural studies in the new context of postcommunist Romania. Postcolonial criticism has always been an effort on behalf of minor/marginal cultures not only to expose and understand the way in which a hegemonic center subdued and manipulated the development of their identity, but also to resist that pressure and rectify their situation. By turning the critical lens of cultural studies on Romania’s own recent history as a marginalized and abused culture, the course is prompting students to engage their own colonized identities and to take a stance in terms of cultural politics.
The course offers a comparative perspective on postcolonialism and postcommunism against the epistemic background of late modernity/postmodernity, an age when the old political and economic scaffolding of both capitalist and communist empires collapses only to give way to new forms of domination. Hence, the course treats former colonies and former satellite communist states as siblings of subalter(n)ity. The aim is to highlight generic and structural similarities between traumatized post-imperialist cultures, on the one hand, and historical and ideological differences, on the other. Also, I am expecting that, by the end of the course, students will be able to import some methodological instruments of postcolonial criticism into the study of postcommunism, as well as to use postcommunist scholarship as an ideological moderator for the hegemonic first/third-world-oriented discourses in postcolonialism.
While theoretical and methodological reflexivity is thoroughly pursued in the various sessions, efforts are made to offer a lively picture of postcommunist discourse in Romania by means of memorable and stylistically consummate texts by foremost Romanian authors. They are always to be approached contrastively, with a view to the aims outlined above.
The agenda of this course is to rekindle the militant relevance and political involvement of cultural studies in the new context of postcommunist Romania. Postcolonial criticism has always been an effort on behalf of minor/marginal cultures not only to expose and understand the way in which a hegemonic center subdued and manipulated the development of their identity, but also to resist that pressure and rectify their situation. By turning the critical lens of cultural studies on Romania’s own recent history as a marginalized and abused culture, the course is prompting students to engage their own colonized identities and to take a stance in terms of cultural politics.
Saturday, February 22, 2020
LETTERS: CULTURAL STUDIES, POSTCOLONIALISM AND POSTCOMMUNISM - Discussion Themes and Bibliography
Discussion Themes and Bibliography
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