TRAVEL AND ESCAPISM: ELVIRA BOGDAN AND OLGA CABA

Authors

  • Mihaela MUDURE Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: michaela.mudure@ubbcluj.ro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.05

Keywords:

travel, gender, France, Italy, escapism, discontent

Abstract

Travel and Escapism: Elvira Bogdan and Olga Caba. Olga Caba and Elvira Bogdan are female writers for whom travelling became an escapist strategy. Thus could they express, in diluted Aesopic terms, their discontent with Romania’s political evolution in the 1940’s and afterward, under the more acceptable mask of longing for other realms. Elvira Bogdan’s lyrical outbursts in Rome or on the Valley of the Loire and Olga Caba’s enthusiastic soliloquies in Scotland turned into double emphasis discourses under the restrictive travelling mode that prevailed before 1990.

REZUMAT. Călătorie şi escapism: Elvira Bogdan şi Olga Caba. Elvira Bogdan şi Olga Caba sunt scriitoare pentru care călătoria s-a transformat într-o strategie escapistă. În acest fel, ele au putut să-şi exprime nemulţumirea faţă de evoluţia politică a României în anii patruzeci ai secolului al XX-lea şi ulterior, sub masca, mult mai acceptabilă, a dorinţei de a vizita alte tărâmuri. Izbucnirile lirice ale Elvirei Bogdan la Roma sau pe Valea Loarei, precum şi monologurile entuziaste ale Olgăi Caba în Scoţia s-au transformat în discursuri cu accente duble în condiţiile sistemului restrictiv al călătoriilor existent înainte de 1990.

Cuvinte-cheie: călătorie, gen, Franţa, Italia, escapism, restricţii, nemulţumire

Author Biography

Mihaela MUDURE, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: michaela.mudure@ubbcluj.ro

Dr Mihaela MUDURE is professor emerita at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She has been guest professor in Turkey and the Czech Republic and a member of the Beatrice Bain Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley (2015-2016). Dr. Mudure is interested in the British Enlightenment, the intersection between gender and ethnicity, ethnic literatures in the USA. Her publications include: Feminine (2000); Katherine Mansfield. Plucking the Nettle of Impressions (2000); Ethnic America (2008); Lecturi canadiene. Canadian Readings (2009); Alte lecture canadiene. Other Canadian Readings (2020). Dr Mudure is also a versed translator from English and French into Romanian and from Romanian into English. Email: michaela.mudure@ubbcluj.ro

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2021-06-20

How to Cite

MUDURE, M. (2021). TRAVEL AND ESCAPISM: ELVIRA BOGDAN AND OLGA CABA. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 66(2), 61–78. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.05

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