Romania and the Quest for European Identity
Philo-Germanism without Germans
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The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania's president was hailed as evidence that the country chose a 'European' future: that Iohannis belonged to Romania's tiny German minority was also considered to have played a part in his success. Cercel argues that representations of Germans in Romania, descendants of twelfth-century and eighteenth-century colonists, become actually a symbolic resource for asserting but also questioning Romania's European identity. Such representations link Romania's much-desired European belonging with German presence, whilst German absence is interpreted as a sign of veering away from Europe. Investigating this case of discursive "self-colonization" and this apparent symbolic embrace of the German Other in Romania, the book offers a critical study of the discourses associated with Romania's postcommunist "Europeanization" to contribute a better understanding of contemporary West-East relationships in the European context.
This fresh and insightful approach will interest postgraduates and scholars interested in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe and in German minorities outside Germany. It should also appeal to scholars of memory studies and those interested in the study of otherness in general.
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Utgitt:
2019
Forlag: Routledge
Innbinding: Innbundet
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN: 9781472465054
Format: 23 x 16 cm
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Chapter 1 - "Only Another German Can Jolt Us Out of Our Eternal Boycotting of History"
Chapter 2
- Europe: The West and the East, betwixt and between
Chapter 3 - Germans in Romania. A Brief Historical Background.
Chapter 4 - The Self and the Other
Chapter 5 - "...A Valuable and Unmistakable Contribution
to the Life of Romanian Society"
Chapter 6 - "They Who Have No Germans, Should Buy Some"
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7 - 7. "The Rich Villages Around Sibiu and Brasov Have Been Invaded by the Gypsy Migration"
Chapter 8 - Conclusions