Recommended Citation: Țăranu, Ana and Teona Farmatu. “Introduction.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.01.

Abstract: This introduction aims to frame the texts it predates, to highlight their common theoretical and thematic concerns, and to set them against what we envision as a relevant common backdrop for the issues they raise. To this end, we begin from how insufficient acknowledgement of the current...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Bâlici, Mihnea. “The Unhappy Marriage of Care and the Global Market: ‘Soft Backsliding’ in the Narratives of Two Romanian Badanti”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.02.

Abstract: This paper encompasses an analysis of the novels written by two Romanian badanti who emigrated from Eastern Europe to Italy at the beginning of the 21st century, namely Liliana Nechita...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Dragolea, Mihai. “Women on Women in Contemporary Romanian Documentary Film”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.03.

Abstract: Guy Standing (2016) observes how in Eastern Europe, the post-1989 neoliberal order determined the working class to morph into what he names the precariat. This newly formed segment of society has to adapt to forever changing market imperatives in order to survive....   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Vîrban, Iulia-Maria. “From Romanian Communism to Capitalism: the Representation and Ideology of Women’s Bodies”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.04.

Abstract: This article analyses the representation of women’s bodies in the narratives of Și se auzeau greierii (And Crickets Could Be Heard) by Corina Sabău, ca și cum...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Mîrț, Andreea. “The Post-Communist Transition and the Representation of Women in Eastern Europe. A Case Study on Tatiana Țîbuleac and Dorota Masłowska”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.05.

Abstract: Fiction depicting the post-communist transition has been little discussed with the focus on the representation of women. At the same time, there is a lack of comparative studies that analyze...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Singh, Gitanjali. “Analysing Femicide and Antinationalism in The Nirbhaya Case: A Feminist Revisionist Mythmaking Reading of Clea Chakraverty's La Voix de Sita”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.06.

Abstract: Violence against women often stems from gender inequality, societal structures such as patriarchy, impunity, and institutional violence. Despite the remarkable progress it has made...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Țapu, Mihai. “From Xenofeminism to Domestic Realism: Some Notes on Helen Hester’s Writings Post-Laboria Cuboniks”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.07.

Abstract: This paper discusses the recent texts of Helen Hester, a contemporary feminist theorist, in relation to the writings of Laboria Cuboniks, a feminist collective she was a member of. On the one hand, I critically discuss some of...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Moroșan, Ioana. “The Institutionalization of Feminism in the Romanian Academic and Intellectual Sphere”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.08.

Abstract: The present research aims to explore the institutional history of feminist disciplines and the trajectory of their inclusion in the Romanian academic curriculum, as well as in the intellectual space from the late 90’s to the present day....   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Fuioagă, Anastasia. “Gender Performativity and Unstable Identity in Contemporary Queer Romanian Prose”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.09.

Abstract: Despite its importance in the analysis of gender in various research fields, Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity circulates in rather restricted academic spaces in Romania, as her gender studies is not yet a wide field of...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Tite, Alisa. “Charting Gender Difference in Contemporary Romanian Feminist Poetry”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.10.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the assertion of gender difference and gender identity in contemporary Romanian feminist poetry, taking the works of Medeea Iancu, Iuliana Lungu, Mădălina Oprea, and Nóra Ugron as its starting point. This study will...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Huțanu, Diana. “Producing Space(s) Through Poetry: Geofeminism in Contemporary Romanian Poetry”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.11.

Abstract: This paper aims to analyse recent tendencies in contemporary Romanian poetry from a geofeminist perspective. This specific form of feminism emerged within humanistic geography and socio-spatial theories as a response towards the “masculinist...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Runcan, Miruna. “Feminism and Antifeminism in Romanian Theatre Criticism in Interwar Years”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.12.

Abstract: In Romania, during the interwar years, it seems that theatre reviews – much like theatre criticism in general, narrowly as it was and sometimes continues to be defined in Romania – was only considered legitimate if signed by men. There were but two...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Glăvan, Gabriela. “Feminist Digital Humanities and the Harriet Rosenstein Sylvia Plath Archive”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 10.1 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.13.

Abstract: The paper focuses on reinterpreting the Harriet Rosenstein archive, containing a vast amount of previously unavailable materials concerning Sylvia Plath, as a source of feminist literary recovery. It also investigates the digitization of this...   ⇨ Read more

Review by Alexandra Brici
Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Review by Sarah Khan
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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Review by Bogdan VIȘAN
Faculty of Letters, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University
Iași, Romania
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Review by Ioana ONESCU
Faculty of Letters, “Babeș-Bolyai” University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
ioanaonescu@yahoo.com