Nation-Building and Contested Identities - MEK

MARIUS TURDA15 For the best analysis of this contamination, see Sorin Antohi, “Românii în anii‘90: Geografii simbolice ºi identitate socialã” (The Romanians in the 1990s:Symbolic geographies and social identity), in Exerciþiul distanþei: Discursuri,societãþi, metode (The exercise of distance: Discourses, societies, methods)(Bucharest: Nemira, 1997), pp. 292-316.16 At this point I agree with Sorin Mitu’s scepticism regarding the separate culturalmemory of Transylvanians. “Regardless of what Transylvanians thought,were there not in fact real civilisational structures, values, attitudes, mentalities,capable of conferring a distinct character to this province? The Habsburgheritage – the Empire’s well-ordered bureaucracy or the spirit of CentralEurope – has not imprinted a character on this region, which categorically distinguishesit from other Romanian provinces? The answer, in my opinion, isthat almost nothing concrete has survived of such a heritage, with the exceptionof a sea of memories, regrets and nostalgia with nothing to back them.”Sorin Mitu, “Illusions and Facts about Transylvania,” The Hungarian Quarterly39 (Winter 1998), p. 72.SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHYAntohi, Sorin. Civitas Imaginalis: Istorie ºi utopie în cultura românã (Civitas Imaginalis:History and utopia in Romanian culture). Bucharest: Litera, 1994.________ . “Putting Romania on Europe’s Map.” Paper presented at the workshop Euro-Balkans and Balkan Literature. Budapest (6-7 February 1998), pp. 35-37.Bakic-Hayden, Milica, and Robert Hayden. “Orientalist Variations on the Theme‘Balkans:’ Symbolic Geographies in Yugoslav Cultural Politics.” SlavicReview 51 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-15.Chimet, Iordan, ed. Momentul adevãrului (Moment of truth). Cluj-Napoca: Dacia, 1996.Feldman, Jörg. Quo Vadis Romania? Rumäniens Innen-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftspolitikund die Osterweiterung der EU und der Nato (Quo Vadis Romania?The Romanian Internal, Social and Economic Policy and the EUand NATO Enlargement). Hamburg: Libri, 2000.Marino, Adrian. Pentru Europa. Integrarea României: Aspecte ideologice ºi culturale(For Europe. The integration of Romania: Ideological and culturalaspects). Iaºi: Polirom, 1995.Molnár, Gusztáv, and Gabriel Andreescu, eds. Problema transilvanã (The Transylvanianproblem). Iaºi: Polirom, 1999.Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina. Transilvania subiectivã (Subjective Transylvania).Bucharest: Humanitas, 1999.Schöpflin, George. Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-1992. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.Verdery, Katherine. “Civil Society or Nation? Europe in the Symbolism of Romania’sPostsocialist Politics.” In Ronald Grigor Suny and Michael D.Kennedy, eds., Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation. AnnArbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999, pp. 301-340.White, George W. “Transylvania: Hungarian, Romanian or Neither?” In GuntromH. Herb and David H. Kaplan, eds., Nested Identities, Nationalism, Territoryand Scale. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, pp. 267-287.206