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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   IDENTITIES IN MIGRATION: ANGLOPHONE WRITERS IN CONTEMPORARY ROMANIA.

Authors:  MIHAELA MUDURE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Identities in Migration: Anglophone Writers in Contemporary Romania. This essay analyzes the work of two Anglophone writers (Richard Procter and Philip Ó Ceallaigh) who chose to live in Romania and write about Romania. Proctor’s novel Heistberg is a picaresque story whose background is the Romanian transition from communism to capitalism. Ó Ceallaigh’s short story collection revisits the kitchensink realism of the 1950’s in order to catch the ugliness and the sordidness of post-communist realities. Most of Ó Ceallaigh’s stories are placed in those dormitory neighbourhoods of Bucharest built by the Ceausescu regime in order to give shelter to the working class.

Keywords: Richard Proctor, Philip Ó Ceallaigh, post-communism, picaro, irony, humour ugliness, misery, humour, kitchen sink realism
 
         
     
         
         
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