Research Centre for the Study of the British Contemporary Novel

CULTURAL IMPRINTS IN THE AGE

OF GLOBALISATION:

WRITING REGION AND NATION

Edited by

Sanda Berce

Petronia Petrar

Erika Mihálycsa

Elena Păcurar

Rareș Moldovan

PRESA UNIVERSITARĂ CLUJEANĂ

2012

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Descrierea CIP a Bibliotecii Naţionale a României CULTURAL IMPRINTS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION. Conferinţă internaţională (2012 ; Cluj-Napoca) Cultural imprints in the age of globalisation : writing region and nation : Cluj-Napoca, 2012 / ed.: Sanda Berce, Petronia Petrar, Erika Mihálycsa, Elena Păcurar, Rareş Moldovan. - Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2012 ISBN 978-973-595-481-9 I. Petrar, Petronia (ed.) II. Mihálycsa, Erika (ed.) III. Elena Păcurar (ed.) IV. Moldovan, Rareş (ed.) 82.09

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword ................................................................................................................... 7 I. Nation, Region, Place

Some Avatars of the Notion of Nation (Mihaela Irimia) ................................. 13 New Minor Literatures, or the Debt of Contemporary Art (Zsuzsa Selyem) .. 17 The Imprints of a Nation: James Joyce’s Fiction (Elena Păcurar) ................... 27

II. Places of History, Places of Memory: Reality-History-Fiction

in Contemporary Literature

Reading the Metropole: Approaches and Dilemmas (Ágnes Györke) ............ 37

The Place of Fiction: Narratives of Location in the Contemporary British Novel (Petronia Petrar) ...................................... 51

History as Souvenir: The Memory of Communism in Contemporary Romanian Fiction (Adriana Stan) ........................................ 61

III. Figuring the Present: the Visual vs. the Written

From Trauma to Globalisation: Women in Contemporary Irish Fiction (María Cristina Andreu Jiménez) .................... 73

Liquid Modernity and the Memory of Literature: the Question of Authenticity (Sanda Berce) ..................................................... 85

2 nú lundun: Temporality, Spatiality and Trace in The Book of Dave (Rareş Moldovan) .......................................................... 99

My Home, my Self, my Country, my Space! The Novels of Penelope Lively as an English Regional Response to Globalisation (John Style) ................... 113

Living to Post your Tale: the Limits of Fiction, Auto-Narrativisation and Pervasive Media – Tales from the World Wide Web (Ruxandra Bularca).... 123

Virtual Nations as Spaces of Individual and Collective Identity (Pere Gallardo-Torrano) ................................................................................ 133

Theatricality and Performativity: An Overview of Recent Theories (Eugen Wohl) ................................................................................................. 145

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IV. Thresholds, Margins, Borders No Place Nowhere: Transcultural and Transnational Concerns on the Sex Ratio (Elizabeth Russell) ............................................................. 155

“Globalisation and its Discontents”: Threshold Identities in Hari Kunzru’s Novels (Carmen-Veronica Borbély) .................................. 167

“Change all the Names”: Vestiges of Irishness in Samuel Beckett’s Writing (Erika Mihálycsa) ............................................ 179

The City as Character in Jeanette Winterson’s Literary Writing (Alina Preda) .................................................................................................. 191

Spaces and Topographies in British Diaspora Fiction (Éva Pataki) .............. 203

Participants ............................................................................................................ 215

List of Contributors ............................................................................................... 217