TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitroiu,Simona
TI  - Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania: Reclaiming Privacy and Agency 
T2  - Media and Cultural Memory ,
SN  - 9783110763874
U1  - 859/.09492 23/eng/20221221
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Communism
KW  - Cultural Memory
KW  - Romania
KW  - Women
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Romanian women's autobiographical writings
KW  - Women's agency
KW  - private/public self
KW  - surveillance
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1 Introduction: Realms of Privacy and Agency --; 2 The Political Regime, Gender, and Paradigms of Memory --; 3 Life Writing and Realms of Privacy --; 4 Traumatic Experiences: Privacy as Communicative Agency --; 5 Knowing the Past: Ana Blandiana and Privacy as Shared Agency --; 6 Everyday Communicative Responsibility: Privacy as Endurance --; 7 The Public Revelation of the Self: Mihaela Miroiu and Privacy as a Shared Responsibility --; 8 Re-Working the Past through Life Writing: Herta Müller and the (Im)Possibility of Privacy --; 9 Conclusion: Realms of Privacy --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women’s lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women’s autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past through shared responsibility and shared agency. At the same time, however, the way these private, personal narratives intertwined with collective and official historical narratives exemplifies the multidimensional nature of privacy as well as the radical redefinition of agency in this period. This book argues for a broader understanding of the narratives of the communist past, one that reflects the complexity of individual and social interactions and allows a deep exploration of the interconnected relations between memory, trauma, nostalgia, agency, and privacy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110766530
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110766530
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110766530/original
ER  -