Monstruozitate, extincție și alienare în poezia recentă română și basarabeană.

This essay has a twofold purpose: first, it initiates a discussion on the inter-peripheral and intraperipheral relationships established between the poetic production of two peripheral cultures within the world literary system; second, through a materialist reading, it addresses the issue of alienation in the time of monsters. It aims to examine the inter-peripheral relationship between contemporary Romanian and Bessarabian poetry, with a focus on the shared sense of alienation articulated through and embodied by monsters. By exploring tropes of zombies, aliens, and unimaginable futures, I seek to investigate how the poetry of a peripheral culture (Bessarabian) evolves when it develops in conjunction with and within the context of another (Romanian). This case study examines the poetry of Romanian writers Ștefan Manasia and Mircea Andrei Florea, alongside Bessarabian writers Ion Buzu and Dumitru Fanfarov, arguing that their works effectively reveal the alienating temporality of current monstruous polycrisis. In my reading, their works are united by an intrinsic critique of alienation in response to monstrosity. While the dystopian scenario is typically associated with science fiction literature, I contend that the ethos of dystopia has proliferated across various literary discourses, including poetry. Furthermore, I seek to trace the relationship of these peripheral cultures to the capitalist world-system so to uncover the shared front through which they assert themselves against its alienating effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]