Resistance through culture explained

Resistance through culture (also called cultural resistance, resistance through the aesthetic,[1] or intellectual resistance)[2] is a form of nonconformism. It is not open dissent, but a discreet stance.[3]

A revolt "so well hidden that it seems nonexistent",[4] it is a quest "to extend the boundaries of official tolerance, either by adopting a line considered by authorities to be ideologically suspect, or by highlighting certain contemporary social problems, or both." Criticized for being "utopian, and thus inadequate to the realities of that age",[5] during the time of the Communist regimes in Europe, it was also a surviving formula, a modality for writers and artists to cheat Communist censorship without going the whole way into open political opposition.[6] [7]

Romania

One of the most sharply criticized phrases in post-revolutionary Romania,[8] considered to be not much more than "blowing in the wind" by Romanian-born German Nobel literature prize winner Herta Müller,[9] and "not only resignation [...] but complicity with the terrorist communism" by Romanian exiled writer Paul Goma,[10] so-called "resistance through culture" has often been linked to Constantin Noica's so-called "Păltiniș School".[11]

In the fine arts, Corneliu Baba, among others, is sometimes considered to be an example of a painter who was nonconformist in this way.[12]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Insemnari marunte despre rezistenta prin cultura si despre un român care schimba lumea. Cultura. ro. May 20, 2010. Simion. Eugen. January 26, 2014.
  2. Web site: Exilul, inainte si dupa exil. Observator cultural. ro. Corbea. Andrei. 30 May 2000. 10 Aug 2015.
  3. Book: McDermott . Kevin . Stibe . Matthew. Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule. Oxford, New York . Berg. 90, 91. 978-1-84520-258-3.
  4. Web site: Rezistenţa culturală la începuturile comunismului. România literară. Marcu. Luminița. 10 Aug 2015. ro. 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924131444/http://www.romlit.ro/rezistena_cultural_la_nceputurile_comunismului. 24 September 2015. dead.
  5. Book: In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia. 2010. Bradatan. Costica. Oushakine. Serguei Alex.. Lexington Books. Plymouth, UK. 54. 978-0-7391-3624-9.
  6. Web site: Memorie si exil. romaniaculturala.ro. ro. Cesereanu. Ruxandra. 2005. 10 Aug 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924123644/http://www.romaniaculturala.ro/articol.php?cod=7884. 2015-09-24.
  7. Book: Phenomenology 2005: Selected Essays from the Euro-Mediterranean Area, Part 1. Copoeru. Ion. Sepp. Hans Rainer. Zeta Books. 2007. 74.
  8. Web site: "Textualism socialist" şi "rezistenţă prin cultură" în proza anilor '80. Dinițoiu. Adina. Observator cultural. ro. September 2009. 10 Aug 2015.
  9. Web site: Cazul Noica şi şcoala de la Păltiniş (I). jurnalul.ro. ro. January 10, 2011. January 26, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103235/http://jurnalul.ro/special-jurnalul/cazul-noica-si-scoala-de-la-paltinis-i-564554.html. February 2, 2014. dead.
  10. Book: Grundbegriffe und Autoren ostmitteleuropäischen Exilliteraturen 1945-1989 Ein Beitrag zur Systematisierung und Typologisierung. Behring. Eva. Brandt. Juliane. Dozsai. Monika. Kliems. Alfrun. Richter. Ludwig. Trepte. Hans-Christian. Franz Steiner Verlag. Stuttgart. 2004. de. 641.
  11. GRIGORE . VASILICA . MITRACHE . GEORGETA . PREDOIU . RADU . 2016-08-30 . Analogical transfer capacity and the discrimination reaction time in elite female tennis players . Psiworld 2015 Proceedings . Romanian Society of Experimental Applied Psychology . 10.15303/rjeap.2016.si1.a11.
  12. Web site: Somnul de 50 de ani al creaţiei. tvrplus.ro. ro. January 26, 2014.

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