Sidonia GRAMA NEDEIANU
The Catharsis of Going out into the Street: Experiencing the 1989 Romanian Revolution
Abstract:
The violent event of the 1989 Romanian revolution was experienced both as transforming and traumatic. Using vivid, synaesthesic testimonies on those days, the paper highlights the liminality of the revolution-as-lived, its symbolic dimension, the existential dilemmas and the harsh reflexivity triggered then, while critically examining narrative patterns of the revolution-as-told.
