Transgressive Spaces in Contemporary Romanian Poetry: A Geocritical Approach

Abstract

Transgressivity is a major geocritical principle that is fundamental for the morphology of global spaces. Following this theoretical frame, my paper will map out the images and states of transgressivity that arise in contemporary Romanian poetry. How does poetry create transgressive spaces in the context of a post-communist society? Which are the poetic cartographies involved in the process of cognitive, affective and heterotopic mapping of Romanian postCommunism? Finally, how does poetry become a territory of freedom that subverts a given socio-political geography? These are the starting points of my geocritical approach on transgressivity which can be characteristic to the “chronotopography” of post-communist spaces and their poetic representations.