Post-Yugoslav Literature(s) in Transnational Perspective

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The panel investigates the liberatory potential of transnational perspective for reading migrant women writers from Central and Eastern Europe. Focusing on the region of the former Yugoslavia, Jasmina Lukic’s paper will theorize the transnational perspective as an interpretative framework for reading authors who write “outside the nation” (Azade Seyhan), while the following three papers will analyze representative cases of migrant woman writers. The panel as a whole looks into the liberatory potential of transcultural experiences, investigating the ways in which code switching can be a way of reclaiming perspectives and vocabularies that were appropriated for the purposes of cultural exclusion and destruction in one's native idiom or sociolect.

The research presented in this panel is a part of the MSCA DN EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from Transnational Perspective (101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021_DN-01).

Sub Unit

• Literature: 21st Century

Chair

• Ellen Elias-Bursac, American Literary Translators Association

Papers

• Reading Transnationally: Away from Constraints of National Canons - Jasmina Lukic, Central European U (Austria)

• 'Somehow We Are [from the Balkans]': Embracing Stigmata in Melinda Nadj Abonji’s Prose - Petra Bakos, Central European U (Hungary)

• The Other Side of the Map: Tamara Djermanovic’s Narrative of Return to the Former Yugoslavia - Laura Bak, U of Oviedo (Spain)

• Between Hope and Despair: Daša Drndić’s Literary Memory Narratives - Dara Sljukic, Central European U (Austria)

Discussant

• Ellen Elias-Bursac, American Literary Translators Association