Metacritic Journal


for Comparative Studies and Theory

Reframing Peripheries in World Literature 8.1 (July 2022)
ISSN 2457 – 8827
Marko Juvan Marko Juvan

Wordliness, Worlds, And Worlding of Literature


Recommended Citation: Juvan, Marko. “Wordliness, Worlds, And Worlding of Literature”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.01.

Abstract: Based on Said’s understanding of literature’s worldliness, Hayot’s concept of literary worlds, and Cheah’s interpretation of worlding, the article – itself an example of “traveling theory” (Said) – proposes to treat world literature in a “secular” perspective, i.e., as an...   ⇨ Read more
Didier Coste Didier Coste

When Less Is More: Towards A Theory without A Fixed Address


Recommended Citation: Coste, Didier. “When Less Is More: Towards A Theory without A Fixed Address”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.02.

Abstract: Theorization is rendered more necessary than ever by globalization, it is the most privileged manner of delineating phenomena and articulating the manifest; without it, anthropological unity is denied and regression to self-destructive competition for survival and...   ⇨ Read more
Maria Chiorean Maria Chiorean

Alternative Patterns of Literary Progress: Writing about Rwanda in the Wake of Trauma


Recommended Citation: Chiorean, Maria. “Alternative Patterns of Literary Progress: Writing about Rwanda in the Wake of Trauma”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.03.

Abstract: This article discusses three books about the 1994 genocide against Rwandan Tutsis, all of which belong to the “Writing as a Duty to Memory” project: two novels by Boubacar Boris Diop and Abdourahman Waberi respectively, and a travel...   ⇨ Read more
Bogdan Ștefănescu Bogdan Ștefănescu

The Complicated Selves of Transcolonialism: The Triangulation of Identities in the Alternative Peripheries of Global Post/Colonialism


Recommended Citation: Ștefănescu, Bogdan. “The Complicated Selves of Transcolonialism: The Triangulation of Identities in the Alternative Peripheries of Global Post/Colonialism”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.04.

Abstract: The paper argues that twentieth-century (post)coloniality was a multi-centric and poly-peripheral space and as such calls for a different, more complex geo-cultural and historical...   ⇨ Read more
Mihnea Bâlici Mihnea Bâlici

World-Literature and the Bessarabian Literary System. Combined and Uneven Development in The Semiperiphery


Recommended Citation: Bâlici, Mihnea. “World-Literature and the Bessarabian Literary System. Combined and Uneven Development in The Semiperiphery”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.05.

Abstract: This essay proposes a theory of interperipheral relations in Eastern Europe, starting from the cases of Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The aim is to affirm a more materialistic interpretation of world-literature...   ⇨ Read more
Ioana Moroșan Ioana Moroșan

Romanian Women Writers and the Literary Profession during the First Half of the 20th Century: Exclusion, Feminisation and Professionalisation of Writing


Recommended Citation: Moroșan, Ioana. “Romanian Women Writers and the Literary Profession during the First Half of the 20th Century: Exclusion, Feminisation and Professionalisation of Writing”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.06.

Abstract: The present paper aims to analyse the evolution of the writing profession in case of women writers during the first half of the 20th century and especially during the...   ⇨ Read more
Emanuel Modoc Emanuel Modoc

The Digital Curation of the Romanian Interwar Novel (1920-1940)


Recommended Citation: Modoc, Emanuel. “The Digital Curation of the Romanian Interwar Novel (1920-1940)”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.07.

Abstract: In recent years, Romanian literary studies took one of its major methodological turns toward distant reading, using either or both quantitative and computational analysis. While quantitative analysis employed lexicographical instruments such as dictionaries and...   ⇨ Read more
Ovio  Olaru Ovio Olaru

From Capitalist Aspirations to the National Project. The Inter-Imperial Transylvanian Compromise


Recommended Citation: Olaru, Ovio. “From Capitalist Aspirations to the National Project. The Inter-Imperial Transylvanian Compromise”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.08.

Abstract: In the present article, I address two novelistic productions set in late 19th century and early 20th century Transylvania, discussing the different intersections of class, ethnicity, and culture underlying the constructed image of...   ⇨ Read more
Daiana  Gârdan Daiana Gârdan

The Life of a Literary Network – A Quantitative Approach to Sburătorul Literary Cenacle


Recommended Citation: Gârdan, Daiana. “The Life of a Literary Network – A Quantitative Approach to Sburătorul Literary Cenacle”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 8.1, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.09.

Abstract: Investigated mostly in a co-dependent relationship with its titular figure – E. Lovinescu (1881-1943), the Romanian literary circle Sburătorul has achieved a paradoxical position in the field of Romanian critical inquiry. On one hand,...   ⇨ Read more
Marius Conkan Marius Conkan

The Rhizomatic: A Spatial Form in Contemporary Romanian Poetry


Recommended Citation: Conkan, Marius. “The Rhizomatic: A Spatial Form in Contemporary Romanian Poetry”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.10.

Abstract: Using geocritical methods and exploring the spatiality of texts, this study aims to demonstrate that the rhizomatic, the well-known Deleuzian concept, constitutes one of the spatial forms in contemporary Romanian poetry. In this sense, rhizomatic poetics...   ⇨ Read more
Mădălina Pojoga Mădălina Pojoga

Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema


Recommended Citation: Pojoga, Mădălina. “Misfits and Troubled Men. Masculinity and Violence in Romanian Socialist Cinema”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, 8. 1. (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.11.

Abstract: This paper is part of an ongoing research project that aims at identifying types of masculinities in Romanian socialist cinema, by using gender studies and other contributions on the topic of masculinity in order to provide a sociological...   ⇨ Read more
Mihaela Vancea Mihaela Vancea

The Unseen Faces of Translation. Insights into the English and Spanish Translations of Norman Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return


Recommended Citation: Vancea, Mihaela. “The Unseen Faces of Translation. Insights into the English and Spanish Translations of Norman Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.12.

Abstract: This paper aims to determine the strategies of adapting the translated content to a specific context based on a study case of Norman Manea’s The Hooligan’s Return. An exclusive interview with the...   ⇨ Read more
Ștefan Baghiu, Emanuel Modoc Ștefan Baghiu, Emanuel Modoc

Compensation and Kin Selection in the Long Nineteenth Century Translationscapes


Recommended Citation: Baghiu, Ștefan, and Emanuel Modoc. “Compensation and Kin Selection in the Long Nineteenth Century Translationscapes”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 8.1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2022.13.13.

Abstract: Using network models and quantitative methods, the present article provides a bird’s-eye-view of the Romanian novelistic translationscape published in volumes during the “long 19th century”. The study approaches the cultural...   ⇨ Read more
Salma Al Refaei

Didier COSTE, Christina KKONA, Nicoletta PIREDDU, Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism, Routledge, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-367-70112-3, 323 p.


Didier COSTE, Christina KKONA, Nicoletta PIREDDU, Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism, Routledge, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-367-70112-3, 323 p. Review by Salma AL REFAEI Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest Bucharest, Romania salma_al_refaei@yahoo.com