Exploring Intercultural Dynamics in Transylvania: Irina Georgescu Groza’s The Lambs’ Exodus

This article aims to explore intercultural dynamics in Transylvania as presented in Irina Georgescu Groza’s latest historical novel, The Lambs’ Exodus, published in 2021. Set against the backdrop of the Second Vienna Award and its aftermath, the novel bears testimony to the re-emergence and intensification of the conflict between the Romanians and Magyars of Northern Transylvania. In our contribution, we will examine intercultural relationships, hybrid identity and the cultural negotiations prompted by the traumatic events of the Treznea massacre. The contemporary portrayal of historical and cultural trauma is one of recent literary contributions that seek to re-evaluate, conserve the memory, and, finally, popularise, beyond nationalism and propaganda, the diverse and pluricultural past of Romania in the first half of the 20^th Century.

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