Beschreibung
This book presents a broad spectrum of studies focusing on fiction, graphic narratives, photography, online forums and interviews.
The contributions engage with important aspects of women’s mobility and migration in the aftermath of communism. Thus the book covers untrodden ground in Eastern European studies, feminism and transnationalism, and is a highly welcome intervention in the field of transnational feminism.
The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of
fictional and non-fictional East European women’s migration
narratives (by Dubravka Ugresi’c, Slavenka
Drakuli’c, Vesna Goldsworthy, Iva Pekárková,
Ioana Baetica Morpurgo and Marina Lewycka), multimodal
narratives by migrant artists (Nina Bunjevac and Svetlana
Boym) and cybernarratives (blogs and personal stories posted
on forums). They negotiate the concept of narrative between
conventional literary forms, digital discourses and the
social sciences, and bring in new perspectives on strategies
of representation, trauma, dislocation, and gender roles.
They also claim a place for Eastern Europe on the map of
transnational feminism.
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru is an Associate
Professor of American Studies at the University of
Bucharest.
Madalina Nicolaescu is a Professor of English at the
University of Bucharest.
Helen Smith is a Lecturer in Modern Literature at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich.
