Publications by Doctoral Candidates
This article introduces a Dalit decolonial feminist standpoint as an epistemic and political framework that redefines feminist thought through four interrelated pillars. It argues that decolonial and postcolonial frameworks remain constrained by their inability to recognise caste as the meta-structure that organises social relations, epistemic hierarchies, and modernity itself.
Alejandra Ortiz, author of De waarheid zal me bevrijden, offers readers an opportunity to see Amsterdam from her (trans)national gaze. Through this piece, she shares how Amsterdam has influenced her identity as a woman, writer and activist, and her feelings of (non)belonging.
Solidly rooted in postcolonial theory and practice, Fictions of Race in Contemporary French Literature shines a spotlight on the great ghost of contemporary conversations on race: the ‘unnamed, unmarked, and thus structurally invisible’ Hexagonal, liberal, White writer (p. 7).
by Alice Flinta
This article examines how contemporary transnational feminist author Bernardine Evaristo uses historical revision and counter-discursive narrative techniques in The Emperor's Babe (2001) and Blonde Roots (2008) to rethink the paradigms of Self and Other.
These are lessons learned from watching Georgian films directed by women. Lessons about agency, perspective, background noise that shapes our lives, how being human is done in relation, and the possibility of turning toward each other so that we may overturn the doom.
We agreed that we wanted to see what we make of words – and what words make of us. Weaving together two of the many concerns that the EUTERPE Project grapples with, feminism and migration, we came up with the idea of facilitating an interactive game of scrabble played on a world map: a wor(l)d map.
by Evangeline Scarpulla and Alice Flinta
What you see here is a collaborative collage and a co-written creative reflection made with love by the seven of us – transnational students who found each other during a fall semester at Utrecht University.
This opinion piece argues that autobiographical writing can be a powerful tool, especially for people with a migrant background, to diversify the stories in our collective consciousness—and to reclaim ownership of your life story on a personal level.
Using a creative critical account of feminist ethnography conducted at a Western European university, the paper presents and discusses two illustrative vignettes about cultural mapping and critical fabulation, considering how dissonant voices have challenged Western concepts, exemplifying transformative pedagogy working in tandem with transnational thought.
This article employs a series of feminist close-readings to explore the use of "translanguages" in the work of the Algerian novelist and film-maker, Assia Djebar, and the Dutch-Uruguayan poet, Maxime Garcia Diaz, and demonstrates how their literature subverts patriarchal and monolingual hegemony to promote transnational feminist solidarity.
Contested Communities is an ambitious study that uncovers a complex net of relationalities, within Europe and beyond, starting from the language question within the literary domain.
by Alice Flinta
This article focuses on the life writing narratives of diasporic writers in Europe, such as the Italian writer of Somali descent Igiaba Scego, who manages to create powerful interventions on issues of belonging, diversity, and creativity.
This review explores contemporary Japanese-German author Yoko Tawada's engagement with the concepts of migration, home, and belonging in her 2018 dystopian cli-fi novel Scattered All Over the Earth.
This analysis considers Chérissa Iradukunda's Broken Object as an alternative discourse to the traditional idea of Europe as superior and universal.
This paper examines how the representations of female experiences in Marrón, a transnational Life Writing text written by Rocío Quillahuaman, challenge a hegemonic European identity.