Narratives of Belonging in Romanian American Diasporic Literature

This follow-up panel of the “Diasporic Voices: Tears, Silences, Laughter” conference focusses on the diasporic imaginary of belonging through the experiences of featured Romanian American writers: Carmen Bugan, Mihaela Moscaliuc and Domnica Rădulescu. Supported by the Phantasma Centre for Imagination Studies, the Centre for African Studies, and the Centre for Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean Studies, this panel is convened by the Immigration Research Forum, a Washington, DC-based entity which hosts the Romanian American Literary Circle (RALC). This platform is dedicated to highlighting the voices and contributions of diaspora writers within the host nation setting. The panel’s sub-topics of memory and nostalgia will be approached as constantly renegotiated constructs of autobiographical narrative identity.

18:00-18:20  “Exploring immigrant resilience through narrative identity constructs,” Teodor Stan

This presentation outlines the experience of establishing a literary circle during the pandemic years, a group of first- and second-generation diaspora writers who attempt to negotiate and explore their…