Grappling with a contested past described either as state feminism or \u201cstate patriarchy\u201d (Mihaela Miroiu), postsocialist Romania has to reassess its representations of femininity in light of both the resurgence of Church interference in political matters and the new material turn in the humanities. Rather than view feminism as a discourse foreign to the periphery of Europe, this workshop aims to treat it as a \u201ctravelling theory\u201d (Edward Said) in a \u201czeugmatic space\u201d (Mihaela Mudure), challenging the dominant narrative of postfeminism and \u201ccapitalist realism\u201d (Mark Fisher). We will tackle issues such as gender roles, sexuality, class, the Romanian diaspora between (self-)exile and economic migration, tradition, cultural hegemony and counterculture, aided by three examples from the Romanian New Wave in cinema, namely Solda\u1e6dii. Poveste din Ferentari (Soldiers. Story from Ferentari, 2017), Sieranevada (2016), and Dup\u1eb7 dealuri (Beyond the Hills, 2012).<\/p>\n
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Cristina Diamant, PhD candidate in English literature at Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, is\u00a0a visiting scholar in the Centre for Gender, Sexuality, and Writing under the Erasmus traineeship programme and\u00a0assistant editor of the Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory. Her academic interests include cultural theory, materialist feminism, posthuman studies, and pop culture, especially graphic novels, in the context of investigating various representations of otherness.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grappling with a contested past described either as state feminism or \u201cstate patriarchy\u201d (Mihaela Miroiu), postsocialist Romania has to reassess its representations of femininity in … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53063,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[143219,178752,178181],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}