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Romania and the Quest for European Identity - Philo-Germanism without Germans (Paperback)
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Romania and the Quest for European Identity - Philo-Germanism without Germans (Paperback)
Series: Southeast European Studies
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Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans
predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that
the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected
with Romania's endeavors to become European. The election, in 2014,
of Klaus Iohannis as Romania's president was hailed as evidence
that the country chose a 'European' future: that Iohannis belonged
to Romania's tiny German minority was also considered to have
played a part in his success. Cercel argues that representations of
Germans in Romania, descendants of twelfth-century and
eighteenth-century colonists, become actually a symbolic resource
for asserting but also questioning Romania's European identity.
Such representations link Romania's much-desired European belonging
with German presence, whilst German absence is interpreted as a
sign of veering away from Europe. Investigating this case of
discursive "self-colonization" and this apparent symbolic embrace
of the German Other in Romania, the book offers a critical study of
the discourses associated with Romania's postcommunist
"Europeanization" to contribute a better understanding of
contemporary West-East relationships in the European context. This
fresh and insightful approach will interest postgraduates and
scholars interested in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and
in German minorities outside Germany. It should also appeal to
scholars of memory studies and those interested in the study of
otherness in general.
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