Mitroiu Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania

Reclaiming Privacy and Agency
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-076653-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory

This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women's lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women's autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy.

Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Rumänien

Zielgruppe

Scholars interested in Life writing, Memory, Gender, Eastern Euro

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mitroiu, Simona

Über Autor(innen)

Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Rumänien

Simona Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania