GENS Profesor Jasmina Lukic, GENS PhD graduate and Scientific Coordinator of the EUTERPE Project Petra Bakos, GENS PhD student Dara Sljukic, and Laura Bak from the University of Oviedo and also a part of the EUTERPE Project created a panel for the 2024 ASEEEES Annual Convention in Boston (MA, USA). Chaired by Ellen Elias-Bursać, the panel was titled "Post-Yugoslav literature(s) in Transnational Perspective". Professor Lukic presented "Reading Transnationally: Away from constraints of national canons". Petra Bakos' paper was "'Somehow we are [from the Balkans]' – Embracing stigmata in Melinda Nadj Abonji’s prose" and PhD student Dara Sljukic presented "Between Hope and Despair. Daša Drndić’s Literary Memory Narratives". Laura Bak presented "The Other Side of the Map. Tamara Djermanovic’s Narrative of Return to the Former Yugoslavia".
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 theorizes the transnational perspective as an interpretative framework for reading authors who write “outside the nation” (Azade Seyhan) while the other 3 papers 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).