Interstudia, n°11/2012
vol 1 & 2
Cultural spaces. Identity within/beyond borders
Alma Mater Publishing House, Bacău
ISBN 20653204
Persons in charge of the current issue: Cătălina Bălinişteanu, Elena Ciobanu, Raluca Galiţa
In the age of globalization, cultural spaces are constantly negotiated, changed and even contested. Nowadays cultural spaces show the tendency of having flexible borders (be they linguistic, ethnical, political, historical, social, etc), therefore they prove to be multi-layered structures that lead to the construction of cultural identity or to an exchange of cultural values. In most cases the cultural borders are not the same with the borders imposed by historical, political or social conventions. With the accelerated movement of populations, of financial capital or of cultural products, some cultural practices and beliefs have suffered dramatic changes or transformations. In this case, culture appears as a system of symbols and signs or as a space that makes possible diverse and multiple combinations of symbols, or of signs. The preservation of cultural identity is a social process in which all individuals of that specific cultural space participate.
The first volume of this issue contains three sections, which endeavour to offer multifaceted interpretations to the topic of identity within/beyond borders. The first section of the volume includes articles approaching identity from a double perspective: that of interdisciplinarity and of transdisciplinarity. The articles in the second section of the volume deal with literature and culture within/beyond borders. The articles in the third section of the volume deal with language and culture within/beyond borders.
The second volume of this issue contains three sections, concentrating on the ways in which identity can be interpreted from a variety of points of view. The first section of the volume includes articles discussing translation as mediation between/among identities. The articles in the second section of the volume approach identity from a double perspective: that of interdisciplinarity and of transdisciplinarity. The articles in the third section of the volume deal with the problems encountered within/beyond cultural/linguistic/racial borders.
Vol. 1
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
APPROACHING IDENTITY: INTERDISCIPLINARITYTRANDISCIPLINARITY
Ahmet Beşe
Music as an Expression of Cultural Identity: August Wilson’s Dramatic Reflections of African-American Art
Florin Mureşanu
Cross-Border Mobility, Hyperlinks, and Architectural Dyslexia: Reading and Writing the Post-Urban Space
Monica-Gabriela Mureşanu
The Cultural Identity of Bucharest - Analyzing the Text and Subtext of the Contemporary Urban Space
Joakim Sten, Dylan Glynn
The American Concept of HOME. A Multifactorial Corpus Driven Study
Richard Todd
Speaker-Ethnicity and Interaction in England: Analyses of Isolation in Chief Social Domains
LITERATURE AND CULTURE WITHIN/BEYOND BORDERS
Deniz Aras
The Emergence of Identity in the Development of Early American Drama
Cătălina Bălinişteanu
Re-Defining Women in Wuthering Heights through the Transgression of Borders
Kubilay Geçikli
Postcolonıal Welsh Identıty in Raymond Wıllıams’s People of the Black Mountaıns
Elena Ciobanu
Edges of the Self in Contemporary American Poetry
Oana Cogeanu
Signifying within and beyond Borders: Travel Writing
Oana Andreea Contoman
The Cultural and Identity Representativeness of the Journalist Caragiale, Nowadays
Alexandra-Marina Gheorghe
Natsume Sōseki’s Yume Jūya (“Ten Nights of Dream”) and the Anarchetype – A Different Approach
Nadia Nicoleta Morăraşu
Exploring the Stylistics of Gendered Identities within Boundaries and beyond Borders
Beata Morzynska -Wrzosek
Memory as the Protection of Identity in the State of Exile. The Poetry of Maria Pawlikowska - Jasnorzewska
Ecaterina Pătraşcu
Choice is Not Freedom: Degrees of Slavery in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Daniela Petroşel
Concentrationary Spaces in Romanian Science Fiction
Ioan Sava
American Culture and Understandings of Blackness
Andreia Irina Suciu
Manifestations of the Self in Charlotte Brontë’s Novels
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WITHIN/BEYOND BORDERS
Elena Bonta
Job Identities Encoded in Commonplace Similes vs Their Daily Perception. A Case Study
Cătălina Comăneci
Reshaping News and Identities in the Context of Globalization
Raluca Galiţa
The Identity of Women in ‘The One’ Magazine. A Study on Anglicisms in the Titles
Simona Gruevska Madjoska
Language, Borders, Identity
Mircea Horubeţ
Identity, Prejudice and Relevance in the Process of Utterance Interpretation
Naho Ishiki
Local or Original? Shifting Identities of Two College Students and Their Challenge toward Cultural and Linguistic Marginalization
Dorota Owczarek
Beyond Linguistic, Racial and Cultural Borders – New Challenges for Language Pedagogy
BOOK REVIEW
Vol. 2
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
TRANSLATION AS MEDIATION BETWEEN/ AMONG IDENTITIES
Maria Aciobăniţei
Identity in Translation: the Case Study of ‘Memories of My Boyhood’ – Ion Creangă
Ligia Brădeanu
Translating Proverbs: Cultural (Un)Translatability
Cristina Chifane
Cultural and Linguistic Identity in Translating Romanian Folk Tales
Mariana Alexandra Dinulescu
The Translator’s Footnote Entries: a Case-Study Applied to David Lodge’s Changing Places
Diana Iosif
Translations from John Steinbeck and Romanian Cultural Identity
Monica Năstasi
Cultural Identity and Tradition in Translation
Oana Surugiu
Translation and Shaping Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
APPROACHING IDENTITY: INTERDISCIPLINARITY/ TRANSDISCIPLINARITY
Simona Mazilu
Slippery Slopes in Pro-Life Argumentation
Mara Mărginean
Shifting Perimeters to Define Inflexible Meanings: Consumption, Spectacle and Ideological Programming in Romanian Architecture during the 1950s
Gigi Mihăiţă
Man, Machine and the Common Algorithm
Diana Elena Popa
National Imaginarium in World Cinema. A Binary Perspective
Violeta Popa
“The Building”: A Matrilocal Space. An Ethno-Phenomenological Approach
Adina Rădulescu
Emotional Expression in ‘Sociocentric’ vs. ‘Egocentric’ Societies. A Study in Psychological Anthropology
WITHIN/BEYOND CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC/RACIAL BORDERS
Brînduşa-Mariana Amălăncei
Visual Identity in Advertising
Gabriela Andrioai
Metaphorical Concepts beyond Everyday Language
Cristina Cîrtiţă-Buzoianu
Epistemological Identity of Communication in the Public Space
Luminiţa Drugă
Post-Revolution Romanian First Names between Fashion and Tradition
Maria-Cristina Ghiban (Mocanu)
Too “Queer” to Matter: Identity Struggles in the Mexican-American Borderlands
Laurenţiu Ichim
Socio Cultural and Identity Patterns in Stefan Agopian’s Journalistic Work
Nicoleta Ifrim
Identity and the “Broken Glass” Technique in the Postmodern Narratives
Adrian Jicu
Elements of National Identity in Mihai Eminescu’s Journalistic Work at "Curierul de Iaşi”
Manuela Marin
Constructing Cultural Identities in Communist Romania: the Case of People’s Letters
Valentina Mironska – Hristovska
Macedonian Identity and Identities in the Balkans
Daniela Muraru
Argumentative Strategies in Mediation: (Re)Formulations
Petrica Patilea (Crângan)
Being a Writer in the Journalistic Space
Mihaela Amalia Petrovici
An Integrated View upon Postmodernist Conceptual Identity
Roxana-Iuliana Popescu
Logica land Linguistic Cohesion in Ernest Hemingway’s ”The Old Man and the Sea”
Sorin Preda
A Journalistic Genre Neglected by Press Theory – the Open Letter
Petronela Savin
Images of Intimate Space of Family and Open Space of Trade Underlying Some Romanian Eating Phrasemes
Angela Stǎnescu
Post-Imperial Border-Crossings: the Epiphany of Biculturalis in V. S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival
BOOK REVIEW
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