Publications by Doctoral Candidates
Challenging European Identity: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Marrón by Rocío Quillahuaman
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.
Challenging the Idea of Europe: Representations of Female Transnational Experiences in Chérissa Iradukunda's Broken Object
This analysis considers Chérissa Iradukunda's Broken Object as an alternative discourse to the traditional idea of Europe as superior and universal.
Contested Communities: Small, Minority and Minor Literatures in Europe ed. by Kate Averis, Margaret Littler and Godela Weiss-Sussex (review)
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
Postcolonial Intellectuals: Exploring Belonging Across Borders in Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono (My Home Is Where I Am)
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.
Writing (a) Home in Times of Crisis: A Review of Scattered All Over the Earth (2018) by Yoko Tawada
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.
Interpreting “Translanguages” in Transnational Women’s Literature: Socially Situated Perspectives and Feminist Close-Readings
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.
Maps and Fabulations: On Transnationalism, Transformative Pedagogies, and Knowledge Production in Higher Education
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.