CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Ghelase, Emilian |
|---|---|
| Title | BILDUNGSROMAN FOR THE NATION TRANSYLVANIAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF THE UNIFICATION WITH ROMANIA |
| Summary | In this thesis, I am analyzing the self-thematization of Transylvanian political figures in the context offered by the unification with Romania. My research follows the autobiographies of three Transylvanians – Sever Bocu, Onisifor Ghibu and Ion Flueras – whose accounts are written in different contexts and from different standpoints. The first one is a newspaper owner from Banat who travels to Dobrudja in the 1910s and afterwards to Russia to mobilize the Transylvanian volunteers against Austria-Hungary according to T. G. Masaryk's model; the second one is a prominent nationalist fighter and educator who goes from Transylvania to Bessarabia where he mobilizes the Moldovans to establish their own National Party after the Transylvanian model; the third one is a Social-Democrat leader coming from the working class who is one of the proponents of the creation of the Central Romanian National Council. Beyond their differences in terms of social status and political views, what they all share is a common drive to present themselves as the agents behind political unification through their autobiographical narratives. Written in the inter-war period the autobiographies analyzed here are seen as a vehicle for transferring the political language of the pre-war national activism to the politics of Greater Romania. The analytical framework of regionalism and autonomy is employed as a means to explain the public position of the three autobiographers in relation to the State. |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/ghelase_emilian.pdf |
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