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The Fate of a Stereotype: Little Paris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Monica Spiridon
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“The French Connection”

A CHRONIC IDENTITY CRISIS AND AN OBESSIVE INTEREST IN STRONG LEGITIMATING MODELS ARE PERHAPS THE MOST CHARACTERISTC maladies of the modern Romanian cultural consciousness. Like many other peripheral nations, Romania has always been in search of strategies for being accepted as a full-fledged member of the “western European club.” Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the interminable debates concerning national identity focused repeatedly on the cultural heritage of the Roman Empire and the Romance origins of the Romanian language. Membership of the national idiom in the club of Romance languages was viewed as an irrefutable proof of a western European connection and allegiance.

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Correspondents at large BUCHAREST
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PMLA , Volume 122 , Issue 1: Special Topics Cities , January 2007 , pp. 271 - 274
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2007

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