Romania and the quest for European identity : Philo-Germanism without Germans
Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania's endeavors to become European. The election, in 2014, of Klaus Iohannis as Romania...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge
2019.
London : Taylor & Francis Group |
| Col·lecció: | Southeast European studies
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| Accés en línia: | Accès sur la plateforme Taylor & Francis Accès Université d'Orléans |
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Taylor & Francis ebooks en études centre-européennes (Licence nationale) |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Romania and the quest for European identity, Philo-Germanism without Germans, Cristian Cercel, 2019, London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 1 vol. (vii-199 p.), Southeast European studies, 978-1-4724-6505-4 |
| Sumari: | Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige are strongly connected with Romania's endeavors to become European. 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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| Descripció de l’ítem: | Taylor & Francis ebooks en études centre-européennes (Licence nationale) |
| ISBN: | 9781315606873 |
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