The role played by literature in the inter-cultural educational process. Educational extensions of the contemporary feminine diaries

Viewed by the specialised critique as texts displaying covert, non-intentional literariness, always rooted in the near-by reality due to the over-ruling and persuasive feminine conscience, the diaries written by women guide the young generation spiritual formation by means of their patterns pointing out intellectual openness and tolerance. Actually, the didactical and methodological resources of the Romanian contemporary educational system can never satisfy the intercultural openings implied by the rational drive for European integration. As they ask for the awareness of the multiple roots relating them to the multicultural, pluri-identitary and democratic world, the didactic strategies used in high-school curricula when coping with the feminine diaries represent the ideal, balanced solution for the equation didactics - the contemporary context. From this point of view, the analysis focusing the feminine diarist writing has two major key-elements: the approach on the feminine cultural activity, which has been ignored too long now, imperatively asking for a moral and intellectual re-reading and the relation established between the diary and the contemporary Postmodern quest for the intimate, self-confessing narratives recovering the real world rather than for fiction itself. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.