CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Hincu, Adela-Gabriela |
|---|---|
| Title | Children of the Cultural Revolution "Gone Astray": The Forlorn 1970s Generation of German Writers from Socialist Romania |
| Summary | In this thesis I analyze the discursive legitimation strategies, literary practice and political understandings of the 1970s generation of German writers from the Banat during the 1970s and 1980s Socialist Romania. I examine the emergence of a generational mode of argumentation through cultural policies driven regionally and from the center and argue that the crystallization of Aktionsgruppe Banat at the beginning of the 1970s responded to the revolutionary appeal of the 1971 “July Theses.” In the aftermath of the “mini-cultural revolution”, I analyze how the members of the 1970s generation negotiated the experience of violence against their socialist convictions, regrouped around the “Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn” literary circle, and appropriated it as a semi-official institution of the German cultural establishment. I take the patterns of interaction of the 1970s generation with the Romanian literary elites, the breakthrough in the German Federal Republic, as well as the prolonged negotiations of voice and exit throughout the 1980s to be formative for the authors' self-identification strategies after emigration. Analyzing how the collective mode of argumentation did not translate successfully into either patriotic anti-communist or minority representativeness, I explore the authors’ formulation of individual self-narratives after emigration, and propose that these put forward alternative chronologies of the 1970s and 1980s Socialist Romania. |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/hincu_adela-gabriela.pdf |
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