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The Cultures of
English: Anglophone Sensibility, Regional Confluences and
the Romanian Difference |
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ADRIANA NEAGU
Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Abstract
Shifting attention from ‘English’ as a disciplinary area to
the assumptions, attitudes and cultures embedded in its
practice, the paper proposes an examination of the cultural
ethos prevalent in the study of English in the Romanian
academe under the former communist regime. Not an in-depth
study of any given area of scholarly research, the enquiry
is geared toward a consideration of English as a mode of
cultural production, constantly reflecting, mediating, and
shaping conceptions of race, ethnicity, nationalism, and
colonialism in Romanian intellectual history. One of the
central aims of the examination is to read the cultural
values inscribed in and associated with Anglophone
sensibility against a set of regional dominants from the
perspective of the processes of adoption and adaptation
underlying academic practices with a view to articulating
the condition of specificity encapsulating the Romanian
difference.
Keywords: English Studies, area studies,
Anglophone sensibility, Englishness, Romanianness,
communism, postcolonialism, transculturation, Mioritza,
Lucian Blaga |
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