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This is the first issue of the biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of
Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian
Studies and ibidem Press. The new interdisciplinary journal
examines critical issues in Romanian Studies, linking work in that
field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance,
and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal
also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova
comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and
minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges
of migration and globalization and the impact of the European
Union. Volume 1,1 (2019) Katherine Verdery: Thoughts on a Century
of Surveillance Vintila Mihailescu: From Peasant to Post-Peasant
Society. The Rural Footprint of Nation-Building Dennis Deletant:
Shattered Illusions: Britain and Iuliu Maniu, 1942-1945 Maria
Bucur: Queen Marie and Interwar Feminism Marius Stan and Vladimir
Tismaneanu: Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism in Romania: The Case of
Alexandru Jar Revisited
The new biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies,
jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem
Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work
in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current
relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars.
The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova
comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and
minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges
of migration and globalization and the impact of the European
Union. Issue No. 2 contains: Lucian Leustean: Romania, the Paris
Peace Conference and the Protection System of Race, Language and
Religion Minorities: A Reassessment. Gavin Bowd: Between France and
Romania, Between Science and Propaganda. Emmanuel de Martonne in
1919. Doina Anca Cretu: Humanitarian Aid in the Bulwark of
Bolshevism: The American Relief Administration and the Quest for
Sovereignty in Post-World War I Romania. Gabor Egry: Made in Paris?
Contested Regions and Political Regionalism during and after
Peacemaking: Szekelyfoeld and the Banat in a Comparative
Perspective. Svetlana Suveica: Against the Imposition of the
Foreign Yoke: The Bessarabians Write to Wilson (1919). Florian
Kuhrer-Wielach: A fertile and flourishing garden: Alexandru
Vaida-Voevod's Political Account Ten Years after Versailles.
The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly
developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press,
examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that
field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance,
and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal
also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova
comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and
minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges
of migration and globalization and the impact of the European
Union. Issue No. 3 contains: Alexandra Chiriac: Ephemeral
Modernisms, Transnational Lives: Reconstructing Avant-Garde
Performance in Bucharest; Petru Negura: Compulsory Primary
Education and State Building in Rural Bessarabia (1918-1940);
Vladimir Solonari: Record Weak: Romanian Judiciary in Occupied
Transnistria; Delia Popescu: A Political Palimpsest: Nationalism
and Faith in Petre Tuteas Thinking; Cynthia M. Horne: What Is too
Long and When Is too Late for Transitional Justice? Observations
from the Case of Romania; Brindusa Armanca and Peter Gross:
Searching for a Future: Mass Media and the Uncertain Construction
of Democracy in Romania.
The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures
throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays
provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the
ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of
contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Employing theoretical
perspectives drawn from anthropology, literary studies, and gender
studies, the authors examine familiar and less well known oral and
literary traditions--ancient Greek and Latin, Arabic, South Slavic,
Indian, Native American, Italian, English, and
Caribbean--demonstrating the continuing vitality of the epic
tradition.
Juxtaposing work on the traditional canon of western epics with
scholarship on contemporary epics from various parts of the world,
these essays cross the divide between oral and literary forms that
has long marked the approach to the genre. With its focus on the
links among narrative, politics, and performance, the collection
creates a new dialogue illustrating the sociopolitical significance
of the epic tradition. Taken together, the essays raise compelling
new issues for the study of epic, as they examine concerns such as
national identity, gender, pedagogy, and the creation of the canon.
This edited volume examines manele (sing. manea), an urban Romanian
song-dance ethnopop genre that combines local traditional and
popular music with Balkan and Middle Eastern elements. The genre is
performed primarily by male Romani musicians at weddings and clubs
and appeals especially to Romanian and Romani youth. It became
immensely popular after the collapse of communism, representing for
many the newly liberated social conditions of the post-1989 world.
But manele have also engendered much controversy among the educated
and professional elite, who view the genre as vulgar and even
"alien" to the Romanian national character. The essays collected
here examine the "manea phenomenon" as a vibrant form of cultural
expression that engages in several levels of social meaning, all
informed by historical conditions, politics, aesthetics, tradition,
ethnicity, gender, class, and geography.
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