TY - JOUR
TI - Revision of the Legend of Master Manole in Romanian Feminist Discourse after 1989
AU - Bartosiewicz-Nikolaev, Olga
TI - Revision of the Legend of Master Manole in Romanian Feminist Discourse after 1989
AB - 
	The paper focuses on the ideological shift after 1989 that determined the nature of the debates over the role of Ana, the female character of the Legend of Master Manole, and her sacrifice. Until 1989, her perspective was widely ignored because the canonical interpretation of the ballad emphasized the male perspective of Manole and his sacrifice for the act of creation. After 1989, the feminist discourse argued that the symbolic structures perpetuated by this myth were reinforced in Romania by the communist regime. The main aim of the article is thus to present how the newly formed feminist critique employed one of the canonical Romanian texts to show the functioning of the model of a self-sacrificing woman in the social imaginary.

	* This research is funded by the National Science Centre in Poland under the project: The Topos of an “Immured Woman” in the Cultures of Southeastern Europe and Hungary, no. 2020/37/B/HS2/00152.
VL - Volume 23 (2023)
IS - Special Issue 2
PY - 2023
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 231
EP - 239
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.23.025.18519
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/revision-of-the-legend-of-master-manole-in-romanian-feminist-discourse-after-1989
KW - Master Manole
KW - sacrifice
KW - the legend of immured woman
KW - Romanian feminist discourse
KW - Romanian women’s imagery