Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Chioveanu, Mihai
Year: 2002
Title: Metageographies, revolutions, generations
Journal: Studia Hebraica
Issue: 2
Pages: 306-318
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, nationalism, historiography, ideology
Abstract: (En) Historians are concerned essentially with time and space. Although it is still timeline that makes the strong point of their analysis, this tendency depends nowadays on various perspectives, topics and key issues. Many scholars realize that the nation state is not always a convenient framework and often come to transgress and question its borders. Romanian historiography remained, even after 1989, somewhat attached to the old paradigm and still operates with national mythology. Thus, beyond the severe ideological implications, it is the price of isolation that Romanian historians often come to pay with their distorted perspective on several issues such as the symbolic (meta)geographies and generations, which are employed as topics of discourse rather than anything else, that make the special interest of the author. When focusing on Greater Romania and the Generation of 1927 as illustrative examples in this sense, nonetheless extremely sensitive topics, this essay does not make the archeology of the two ideas but rather addresses them from an asymmetric comparative perspective with the concept of "Central Europe" and the European "Generation of 1914"