VOLUME 11(1) • 2023
Race, Identity, and Romanianness
ABSTRACT. The article addresses the issues of race and identity as regards the Romanian people, known as ‘Roumans,’ Roumaninans or Moldo-Wallachians in the nineteenth-century British and American periodicals. Divided into two Principalities and a Province that belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire..
Critical Race Theory, Whiteness Studies and Identity
ABSTRACT. Discussions involving race are extremely sensitive nowadays, and what is generally known as “political correctness” has established rules of verbal conduct that are sometimes deliberately, but often unwittingly, broken. To claim that an individual has voiced a racist opinion is tantamount ..
Quintessences of Englishness
ABSTRACT. The article examines how “quintessential” features of Englishness have been defined in two very different kinds of texts, John Fowles’s “On Being English But Not British” and in Julian Barnes’s novel England, England, both to be examined in relation to each other, to their specific chronot..
Identity and Migration in the Urban Imaginary
ABSTRACT. This article aims to bridge the gap between migration studies and humanities by conducting an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between mobility, modernity and the urban imaginary in the twentieth century. What are the connections between the rise of the modern city and the..
Deconstruction of the Female Self in Feminist Dystopia
ABSTRACT. From its first publication, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein has stirred discussions and controversies. The novel has been labelled as the first novel of several literary genres (such as science fiction or dystopia). Our argument is that Frankenstein is the first feminist dystopia, since ..
Gender Identity and Stereotypes in Fairy Tales
ABSTRACT. The article proposes a postmodern approach to the female character in fairy tales, with a focus on Cinder and Cinderella, by emphasizing the inversion of gender roles. Starting from universally valid social concepts such as social stratification, religious values, femininity, and stigmatiz..
Erasure of the Self: Evelyn Waugh’s New Man
ABSTRACT. The article addresses aspects of an individual’s identity molded by the State in a dystopian society in which conformity creates absurdities such as mass sterilization and mass euthanasia advertised as entertainment or as an antidote to boredom. Like its real counterpart, the totalitarian ..
Identity formation matters in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter
ABSTRACT. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books evolve around the main character and focus on or around the development, the formation and the transformation of his and his fellows’ identity. The chartering of the development of selfhood, the growth and the development within a set, fantastical order fa..