Romanian Literature as World Literature

Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Worlds of Romanian Literature and the Geopolitics of Reading
Christian Moraru (University of North Carolina, Greenboro, USA) and Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)

Part I: The Making and Remaking of a World Literature: Revisiting Romanian Literary and Cultural History
1. Mihai Eminescu: From National Mythology to the World Pantheon
Andrei Terian (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)
2. Aux portes de lâOrient, and Through: Nicolae Milescu, Dimitrie Cantemir, and the âOrientalâ Legacy of Early Romanian Literature
Bogdan Cretu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
3. "Soft" Commerce and the Thinning of Empires: Four Steps Toward Modernity
Caius Dobrescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
4. Beyond Nation Building: Literary History as Transnational Geolocation
Alex Goldis (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
5. After âImitationâ: Aesthetic Intersections, Geocultural Networks, and the Rise of Modern Romanian Literature
Carmen Musat (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Part II: Literature in the Plural
6. Reading Microliterature: Language, Ethnicity, Polyterritoriality
Mircea A. Diaconu (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)
7. Trees, Waves, Whirlpools: Nation, Region, and the Reterritorialization of Romaniaâs Hungarian Literature
Imre J³zsef Bal¡zs (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania)
8. Cosmopolites, Deracinated, ©tranjuifs: Romanian Jews in the International Avant-Garde
Ovidiu Morar (Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania)
9. Communicating Vessels: The Avant-Garde, Antimodernity, and Radical Culture in Romania between World War I and World War II
Paul Cernat (University of Bucharest, Romania)

Part III: Over Deep Time, across Long Space
10. Temporal Webs of World Literature: Rebranding Games and Global Relevance after World War IIâ"Mircea Eliade, E. M. Cioran, Eug¨ne Ionesco
Mihai Iovanel (G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
11. A Geoliterary Ecumene of the East: Socialist Realismâ"The Romanian Case
Mircea Martin (University of Bucharest, Romania)
12. Romanian Modernity and the Rhetoric of Vacuity: Toward a Comparative Postcolonialism
Bogdan Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
13. Gaming the World-System: Creativity, Politics, and Beat Influence in the Poetry of the 1980s Generation
Teodora Dumitru (G. Calinescu Institute of Literary History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
14. How Does Exile Make Space? Contemporary Romanian migr© Literature and the Worldedness of Place: Herta M¼ller, Andrei Codrescu, Norman Manea
Doris Mironescu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
15. Made in Translation: A National Poetics for the Transnational World
Mihaela Ursa (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania)

Bibliography
Index