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Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (review)

Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (review) she invites the reader to contemplate “a modern woman-centered reinterpretation of Romanian culture” (70). i Th s act of reinterpretation is, of course, at its very roots, iconoclastic, especially in light of nearly half a century of Communist social re- pression and cultural censorship in Eastern Europe, including Romania. Orlich’s point, and one both eloquently and convincingly made, echoes a thesis put forth by Charles Fourier in his é Th orie des quatre mouvements et des destinées généra les over two hundred years ago: “Social progress and historic changes occur by virtue of the progress of women toward liberty, and decadence of the social order occurs as the result of a decrease in the liberty of women. . . . the extension of women’s privileges is the general principle for all social progress” (1808). Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation demonstrates how “social progress” (read: nation building) is linked with the gradual but certain emancipation of women from patriarchy. i Th s book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how women’s roles in a key transitional country, located strategically between East and West, between Asia and Europe, developed in the last century, and most important, how that process http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Memorious Discourse: Reprise and Representation in Postmodernism (review)

Richardson, Brian,
The Comparatist , Volume 31 – May 29, 2007
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she invites the reader to contemplate “a modern woman-centered reinterpretation of Romanian culture” (70). i Th s act of reinterpretation is, of course, at its very roots, iconoclastic, especially in light of nearly half a century of Communist social re- pression and cultural censorship in Eastern Europe, including Romania. Orlich’s point, and one both eloquently and convincingly made, echoes a thesis put forth by Charles Fourier in his é Th orie des quatre mouvements et des destinées généra les over two hundred years ago: “Social progress and historic changes occur by virtue of the progress of women toward liberty, and decadence of the social order occurs as the result of a decrease in the liberty of women. . . . the extension of women’s privileges is the general principle for all social progress” (1808). Articulating Gender, Narrating the Nation demonstrates how “social progress” (read: nation building) is linked with the gradual but certain emancipation of women from patriarchy. i Th s book makes a major contribution to our understanding of how women’s roles in a key transitional country, located strategically between East and West, between Asia and Europe, developed in the last century, and most important, how that process

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Published: May 29, 2007

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