An Englishman in Romania: An Imagological Reading of Mike Ormsby’s Never Mind the Balkans, Here’s Romania
Connecting back with an already well-established tradition of scholarly explorations of images of Romanianness, as emerging from (non)fictional representations of crosscultural, Anglo-Romanian encounters, the present paper focuses on one of the most recent textual productions foregrounding an Engl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Casa Cărții de Știință
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Cultural Intertexts |
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| Summary: | Connecting back with an already well-established tradition of scholarly explorations of
images of Romanianness, as emerging from (non)fictional representations of crosscultural, Anglo-Romanian encounters, the present paper focuses on one of the most
recent textual productions foregrounding an English traveller’s gaze on his Romanian
hosts, namely Mike Ormsby’s collection of short stories Never Mind the Balkans,
Here’s Romania (2008). Applying an imagological grid to it, the paper aims at
providing evidence in defence of the idea that, at least after 1989, the English observers’
attitudes towards and, implicitly, textual mirroring of Romania have undergone
significant changes. In doing that, it reflects upon the ‘game’ of auto- and hetero-images
at the heart of the narrative discourse as meant to point to both an awareness of cultural
differences and the need to overcome cultural biases in one’s mind with a view to
successful intercultural communication in the context of globalisation-driven societal
transformations. |
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| ISSN: | 2393-0624 2393-1078 |