Romanian Literature as World Literature

Mircea Martin is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a prominent figure of post-World War II East European literary criticism, theory, and comparative studies. A corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, he is Editor-in-Chief of Euresis: Romanian Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies and president of the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature. His latest book is Radicalism and Nuance (2015). Christian Moraru is Class of 1949 Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Cosmodernism: American Narrative, Late Globalization, and the New Cultural Imaginary (2011) and Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology (2015). Andrei Terian is Dean of Faculty of Letters and Arts and Professor of Romanian Literature in the Department of Romance Studies of Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. He is also a senior researcher with the G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Theory of the Romanian Academy. His latest books include the co-authored reference series General Dictionary of Romanian Literature (7 volumes, 2004-2009) and Chronology of Romanian Literary Life: 1944-1964 (10 volumes, 2010-2013).

Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Worlds of Romanian Literature and the Geopolitics of Reading
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greenboro, USA) and Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)

Part I: The Making and Remaking of a World Literature: Revisiting Romanian Literary and Cultural History
1. Mihai Eminescu: From National Mythology to the World Pantheon
Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)
2. Aux portes de l’Orient, and Through: Nicolae Milescu, Dimitrie Cantemir, and the “Oriental” Legacy of Early Romanian Literature
Bogdan Cretu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
3. "Soft" Commerce and the Thinning of Empires: Four Steps Toward Modernity
Caius Dobrescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
4. Beyond Nation Building: Literary History as Transnational Geolocation
Alex Goldis (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
5. After “Imitation”: Aesthetic Intersections, Geocultural Networks, and the Rise of Modern Romanian Literature
Carmen Musat (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Part II: Literature in the Plural
6. Reading Microliterature: Language, Ethnicity, Polyterritoriality
Mircea A. Diaconu (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)
7. Trees, Waves, Whirlpools: Nation, Region, and the Reterritorialization of Romania’s Hungarian Literature
Imre József Balázs (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania)
8. Cosmopolites, Deracinated, étranjuifs: Romanian Jews in the International Avant-Garde
Ovidiu Morar (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)
9. Communicating Vessels: The Avant-Garde, Antimodernity, and Radical Culture in Romania between World War I and World War II
Paul Cernat (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Part III: Over Deep Time, across Long Space
10. Temporal Webs of World Literature: Rebranding Games and Global Relevance after World War II—Mircea Eliade, E. M. Cioran, Eugène Ionesco
Mihai Iovanel (G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
11. A Geoliterary Ecumene of the East: Socialist Realism—The Romanian Case
Mircea Martin (University of Bucharest, Romania)
12. Romanian Modernity and the Rhetoric of Vacuity: Toward a Comparative Postcolonialism
Bogdan Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
13. Gaming the World-System: Creativity, Politics, and Beat Influence in the Poetry of the 1980s Generation
Teodora Dumitru (G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
14. How Does Exile Make Space? Contemporary Romanian Émigré Literature and the Worldedness of Place: Herta Müller, Andrei Codrescu, Norman Manea
Doris Mironescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
15. Made in Translation: A National Poetics for the Transnational World
Mihaela Ursa (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania)

Bibliography
Index