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Comparative Cultural Studies 3
Culture, Autobiography, and TranslationChair: Carmen Maria Andras (Research Institute for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Targu-Mures, Romania)
Romania and Its Images in British Travel Writing: In-between Peripherality and Cultural Interference
Andras, Carmen Maria (Research Institute for the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Targu-Mures, Romania)
Carmen Maria Andras's paper, "Romania and Its Images in British Travel Writing: In-between Peripherality and Cultural Interference," is based on the framework of comparative cultural studies. The framework is then applied to the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British representations of Romanians and Romania. Employing the tenets of empirical research, the study is about the ways and manner in which British images about Romania are constructed and how their impact upon self-representations and international relations occur. The notion of in-between peripherality as applied to Central and East European culture is a further tool to analyze images of the other in image studies. Romania and Romanian culture, situated on the borders of old empires, although of little relevance to British imperialism nevertheless are identifiable in the cultural and ethnical mosaic of the region and the British represent(ed) this cultural space by contrasting it to "civilization" as understood in Britain. Further, I argue that this relegation went as far as the representation of Romanian culture to less than a junction between Europe and the Orient or between the West and the East.
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