Abstract: In her study "Crossing the Borders of Cultures: the First Wave of American War Correspondents in Romania. The Transylvanian Case", Carmen Andraş focuses on American war correspondents’ representations about Romania between 1916 and the early 1930s. Methodologically, the author deploys the respective analysis in the framework of travel studies and imagology. Carmen Andraş identifies two waves of 20th century American correspondents who travelled to Romania. The respective paper concentrates on the first wave, beginning with World War I, when most of the American reporters were coming from Russia and continuing until the early 1930s, when the installation of dictatorship and political right wing extremism was now obvious in Romania. In the author’s opinion, the second wave of American correspondents coming to Romania, started in the late 1930s and early 1940s and was much more representative, both in quantity and quality. Generally, the American interests in Romania in the circumstances of world wars were military and diplomatic, economic, and political. Generally, the American war correspondents paved the way for a better knowledge and understanding of Romania in the USA.
Keywords: Border Studies, War Studies, Political History, Imagology, Cultural and Intellectual History, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Travel Studies Suggested Citation: [Chicago] Andraș, Carmen. 2016. “Crossing the Borders of Cultures: The First Wave of American War Correspondents in Romania and the Transylvanian Case (1916-Early 1930s).” In Crossing Borders: Insights into the Cultural and Intellectual History of Transylvania (1848-1948), edited by Carmen Andraș and Cornel Sigmirean, 199–232. Documente, Istorie, Mărturii. Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut & Gatineau, Canada, Symphologic Publishing. Download the PDF on Academia Edu.
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