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East and West, or the Creolization of Cultural Spaces: An Exploration of Domnica Radulescu's Black Sea Twilight

East and West, or the Creolization of Cultural Spaces: An Exploration of Domnica Radulescu's Black Sea Twilight
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Author(s): Anca-Teodora Șerban-Oprescu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Roxana Ciolăneanu (University of Lisbon, Portugal)and Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6458-5.ch017

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Abstract

In this chapter, the author proposes a keen look at Domnica Rădulescu's novel Black Sea Twilight, representative for women literary prose of the Romanian diaspora after the Cold War (post-1989). The chapter highlights a strong voice discussing Western Europe and Romania the encounter of the two spaces (East and West), from the standpoint of a Romanian woman and a refugee writer. Furthermore, the analysis highlights the concept of cultural and spatial creolization and brings to the forefront the concept of circular creolization in order to compare, contrast East and West and, hopefully, add new perspectives to previous ways of analyzing diasporic writings. Specifically, the analysis zooms in on text close reading of Domnica Rădulescu's above-mentioned novel. The approach demonstrates interesting insights into emigrant fiction framed by concepts such as creolization, circular creolization and showcases a type of analysis not readily available with the traditional analytical toolbox of exile/diaspora studies.

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