Educational Strategies in Approaching Post-Totalitarian Romanian Literature: Interactive Views on Re-reading the Literary Canon

Abstract

The Eastern-European cultural space registers an acute and deliberate separation from the communist political system, which leads to a conscious quest for a self lead by the literatures that are reborn after the mechanism of ideological oppression disappeared. The result is a permanent re-definition of the national cultural positions with reference to the European centre, joined by a revision of educational system that allow post-totalitarian cultural “voices” to interact on the Western scene. The stated aim is for “marginal literature” and their educational curricula to actively participate to the European circulation of cultural production, which entails the necessity of invoking inter-active strategies focused on European interferences, as well as comparative analyses of the status of other marginal post-communist educational programmes, which found a solution for their identity problem by supporting a national cultural voice already heard in a European context. The underlying development of the pluriethnic multiplicity is conditioned, from a globalizing perspective, by the promotion of the undergoing re-discussion and re-evaluation of the national canon in regard to the European one, which gives way, on the Romanian stage, to different validation/invalidation strategies for the concept of identity through literature, within the larger educational background.