Diasporic Voices / Different Voices: Resonance, Silence, and Performance

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Introduction

 

I. Diasporic Traditions, Transgressions, and Identities

 

Carmen Borbely, “Whence, Then, Is This Change of Sentiment?”: Homesteading and Restorative Nostalgia in The Woman of Colour

Gabriel Gherasim, Diasporic Transgressions of Commedia dell’arte

Maria Chiorean, A Geocritical Reading of Diasporic Identity in the Prose of Leila Aboulela, Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali

Dragoș Bucur, Ghettos, Shettls and Projective Spaces. Diasporic Discourses in Jewish-Romanian Interwar Literature

 

II. Counterfactual Histories and Trans-Border Texts

 

Laura T. Ilea, Counterfactual Histories: Philip Roth and Nicole Krauss

Mohamed Baya, The Muslim Diaspora Giggles Back: A Touch of Humour in Notre-Dame and the Vatican’s Shadow

Raluca Moldovan, Counterfactual History and Diasporic Identity in Philip Roth’s The Plot against America

Constantin Tonu, Slavophile Elements in Andreï Makine’s Prose

Maria Barbu, Voices of the “In-Between”. Anarchetypal Crossings of the Frontier in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy

 

III. Mapping Diaspora: Politics, Memorials, and Praxis

 

Horea Poenar, The Curious Case of the Invention of Diasporic Identity. A Story of Jazz, Politics, Africa and Revolution

Andrada Yunusoğlu, Longing and Belonging in If They Come for Us by Fatimah Asghar and Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

Lavinia Tache, Embodiments and Voices of Inseparable Identities in The Book of My Lives and The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon

Georgiana Tudor, Diasporic Voices in Thesiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

Raluca Panait, The Western Reception of Forugh Farroghzad. New Orientalism and Confessional Poetry

 

IV. Diasporic and Interstitial Spaces

 

Loubna Achheb, Drame diasporique faussé et voix brisées dans l’écriture mokeddemienne

Ioana-Maria Marcu, Silence(s) des patriarches : configurations et valeurs de la « parole retranchée » dans la littérature des descendants de harkis

Nezha Ait-Aïssa, L’interartialité, une forme de l’écriture diasporique dans L’éloge de la perte de Lynda-Nawel Tebbani

 

V. Romanian Exile and Imagined Homelands

 

Ruxandra Cesereanu, Andrei Codrescu – A Portrait of a Writer in Puzzle

Gabriela Glăvan, Reimagining Centrality in Cătălin Dorian Florescu’s Short Stories

Edoardo Giorgi, Du sexe de la femme de Matei Vișniec : l’histoire d’un carnage incarné racontée à travers une superposition de voix

Catrinel Popa, Voicing the Unspeakable in Alexandru Vona’s Fiction

 

VI. Different Voices

 

Corin Braga, Littérature et théorie du chaos

Radu Toderici, “Romans Divers”: The Novel, Its Earliest Classifications, and the Early Modern Peripheries of the Genre

Simon Harel, L’écriture de l’alité. Dépathologiser la dépression dans Désormais ma demeure de Nicholas Dawson

María de los Ángeles Hernández Gómez, Pour une éthique de la parole dans la « littérature-refuge » : l’écriture impliquée de Marie Cosnay

Iulia Ursa, Voice Modulation Through Imaginative Exercises

Anda Ionaș, The Author’s Voice in Genre Films. Miracle and Unidentified by Bogdan George Apetri

 

Library Survey

 

Ruxandra Cesereanu, Noah’s Literary Ark for Gourmets. Studies and Essays in Comparative Literature, Milano, Edizioni AlboVersorio, 2023

Thomas J. Cousineau, The Séance of Reading. Uncanny Designs in Modernist Writing, Bucharest, Bucharest University Publishing, 2023

Achille Mbembe, La communauté terrestre, Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2023

Jarlath Killeen, Christina Morin (eds.), Irish Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Mihaela Ursa, Indisciplina ficțiunii. Viața de după carte a literaturii, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărţii de Știinţă, 2022

 

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