Recommended Citation: Recommended citation: Doğangün, Simla. “The Semiperipheral Subaltern and Literary Expression: Narratives from Turkey and India”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.01.

Abstract: The onset of neoliberal capitalism has endowed the concept of “peripherality” with significant relevance for literary scholars investigating the dynamic interaction between aesthetic structures and the consequences...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Chiorean, Maria. “Racialized Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Romanian Literature”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.02.

Abstract: My paper aims to discuss the imperative of combining ethno-racial and World Literature studies when analyzing the worlding of a semiperipheral literature. More precisely, it looks at the connection between modernity and racialization in Romanian literature...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ung, Snejana. “In the Literary Neighborhood: The Translated Romanian Novel in (Ex-)Yugoslavia (1918-2020)”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.03.

Abstract: This article investigates the literary institutions that facilitate the dissemination of the Romanian novel in (the former) Yugoslavia between 1918 and 2020. My approach consists of a two-fold analysis: quantitative and sociological....   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Olaru, Ovio. “Can the Foreigner Speak? Reflecting the World in the Romanian Novel 1844-1947”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.04.

Abstract: The following article will attempt a partly quantitative analysis of the Romanian novel from 1844 to 1947, drawing on the archive of the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel. I will try to deliver an insight into how a South-East European literature,...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ilis, Florina. “Worlding the Japanese Literature. The Long Road from the Periphery to Internationalisation”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1(2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.05.

Abstract: The present essay analyses the evolution of the Japanese literature considering the dynamics of the influences exerted in the modern age by two major cultures, namely the Chinese and the European cultures, placed in confluence with the...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Ilea, Laura T. “Metasporic Canons. Nomadic Writing and Micropolitics of the Planetary”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.06.

Abstract: This paper aims to introduce three categories in treating the complex phenomenon of canons’ negotiation from the perspective of literature of migration seen from within and from without, notably the nomadic writing, the hybrid paradigm, and the metasporic...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Farmatu, Teona. “The Double Marginality of Romanian Feminist Poetry. Edginess, Theoretical Gap, and Neoliberal Absorbtion”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.07.

Abstract: This paper aims to outline the urgency of Romanian Feminist poetry in light of neoliberalism and the capitalist world-system which together have become an uncontrollable and increasingly unequal mechanism....   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Lupașcu, Emanuel. “Asynchronous Instantaneity. The Posthuman Turn in the Romanian Literary System”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.08.

Abstract: Cultural globalisation, made possible by the enhancement of digital infrastructure, has led some scholars to reconsider the dynamics of core-periphery transfers, stressing the immediacy...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Mîrț, Andreea. “The Representation of the Tatars in the Polish and Romanian Historical Novel: A Case Study on Mihail Sadoveanu and Henryk Sienkiewicz”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.09.

Abstract: The article proposes an analysis of the representations of the Tatars in two historical novels published in Poland and Romania, respectively, from the end of the 19th century and the beginning...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Prodan, Larisa. “Women Migrants in Italy: A Double Peripherality”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.10.

Abstract: After the fall of the communist regime, the economic migration increased significantly within the Romanian society, as people were seeking higher conditions of life in western countries. Being a major social phenomenon, the economic migration became a frequent literary theme in...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Bucur, Dragoș. “Jewish Literature & World Literature. Unlearning (Trans)Nationalism”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.11.

Abstract: The present paper proposes an investigation of the concept of Jewish literature in its relation to world literature studies within an analysis of the first generation of Jewish writers who became part of the Romanian literary life following the 1923...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Țapu, Mihai. “Travelling Theory-Fiction. A Romanian Case Study”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.12.

Abstract: This paper discusses the import of “theory-fiction” in contemporary Romanian culture, by analysing the textual and artistic output of the performance artists Alina Popa and Florin Flueraș. The first part introduces the key methodological concepts used in the text, such as Edward...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Al Refaei, Salma. “The Emancipation of Egypt: A Quest for Modernity under Islamic and Egyptian Values”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.13.

Abstract: The nineteenth and the twentieth centuries were pivotal in Muslim Egypt’s history as they shaped and influenced not only Egyptian society, but also the Muslim community at large. If the West went through various modernizing movements and...   ⇨ Read more

Recommended Citation: Bako, Alina. “A Romanian Vision of World Literature: Between Telescoping and Exoticism”. Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 9.1 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2023.15.14.

Abstract: The present study sets out to discuss World Literature Paradigm in a Romanian context, by undertaking an ample journey through the most important present-day theories, while also adding local definitions of the concept to them. Our discussion is centred...   ⇨ Read more

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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași
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Babeș-Bolyai University
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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