Reading Transnationally: Away from Constraints of National Canons

• In Event: Post-Yugoslav Literature(s) in Transnational Perspective

Abstract

The paper explores the liberatory potential a transnational feminist reading of exiled or migrant post-Yugoslav and CEE woman writers holds. With transnationalism, transculturalism, border thinking, critical cosmopolitanism, and gender as its key concepts, the paper offers an alternative theoretical framework to predominant nationalist exclusionary paradigms of new/old national literatures and their new/old literary canons. At the same time, it positions post-Yugoslav and CEE woman writers in the larger context of transnational European women’s literature.

Author

• Jasmina Lukic, Central European U (Austria)