Mircea Eliade. Exile and Diasporic Identity

Abstract

This article is about Mircea Eliade s rapport to exile, both his and other Romanians. His approach of the exilic experience allows an incursion into the diaspora semantic field in the study Theorizing Diaspora by Jana Evans Braziler and Anita Mannur and a look at Eliade as a diasporic subject. To Eliade, the relationship with homeland and the diasporic identity assume religious significance. He urges members of the Romanian diaspora to hold the native country sacred as a Jerusalem in the Sky. A strong believer in the salvaging power of cultural creation over the political factor, he wanted his work to be a response to the communist regime in Romania.