Granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, Marie (1875-1938) became queen of Romania, her adopted country, in 1914 when her husband Ferdinand assumed the throne. Queen Marie became known worldwide for her charitable efforts and her work nursing wounded soldiers on the front lines during World War I. She helped lead the political and diplomatic efforts that led to Romanian national unification in 1918. This collection of documents reveals important aspects of the life and personality of this remarkable monarch. Americans and Queen Marie of Romania is edited by Diana Fotescu, a researcher at the Cotroceni Museum in Bucharest, the former royal palace where Queen Marie lived. She compiled the materials presented in this volume during her work in the archives in the United States and Romania.
This volume investigates identity discourses and self-constructions/de-constructions in various texts through imagological readings of films, narratives, and art works, examining different layers of cultural identities, on the one hand, and measuring the literary reception of ethnic identity constitution to reveal both the self and hetero images, on the other. The book features theoretical and analytical approaches with insights borrowed from multiple disciplines, and mainly focuses on the application of imagological perspectives in the fields of literature and translation, and specifically in literary works “carried over” from one culture to another. It will be of interest for scholars and researchers working in the fields of literature, translation, cultural studies, and imagology, as well as for students studying in these fields.