Images of Sulina in Romanian literature

My paper aims to provide an overview of how Sulina was depicted in Romanian literature. Starting with its geographical location, which provided a basis for its hybridity, and ending with its multicultural milieu and history of piracy, Sulina has been predominantly portrayed as an exotic Other. Another recurring representation of Sulina, also deriving from its geographical position - that of being the terminal point of the Danube - is that of the confluence between two related, yet different manifestations of water: the Danube and the Black Sea. Represented as the clash of two powerful entities in Alexandru Vlahuţă's România pitorească and Alexandru Macedonski's Cartea de aur, this meeting of the two titans is portrayed more realistically and professionally in Jean Bart's Europolis, the most detailed fresco of Sulina's golden era.

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