Drawing the Romanian Revolution at the History Museum of the County of Brașov

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Romania’s anti-communist Revolution (1989) was the brutal conclusion of almost 50 years of national trauma. While the Revolution itself fits Cathy Caruth’s event-based trauma model, it can only be understood within the context of the prolonged trauma of communist oppression. The chapter explores connections, tensions and ruptures between trauma models by focusing on a unique collection of comics about the Romanian Revolution, commissioned by the History Museum of the County of Brașov (2019). Interested in proposing a different way of examining history, memory and trauma, the museum invited 39 comic book artists to draw their experiences of the Revolution. The result is an extraordinary patchwork of personal memories illustrating how collective.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Authors/Creators:	Levick, C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6310-753X
Editors:	Jeffery, L. Varadi, A.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V. / Central European University Press 2026. This is an author-produced version of a book chapter subsequently published in Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Keywords:	Romanian Revolution; trauma; intergenerational dialogue; graphic novels; humor; curation
Dates:	Accepted: 8 October 2024 Published (online): 24 December 2025 Published: 24 December 2025
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield)
Date Deposited:	17 Mar 2025 15:45
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2026 11:34
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Central European University Press
Series Name:	Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Press
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1515/9789048574964-005
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:224539

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