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Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe

East-West Perceptions and Memory

Av Simona Mitroiu, Marleen Rensen, Anna Seidl, Ivana Taranenkova, Catherine Teissier

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This edited volume explores how women’s life writing from post-Communist Europe turns the continent’s most persistent fault line – the East–West divide – into a space of confrontation, vulnerability, and radical reimagining.Examining personal narratives from seven European countries (Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany, France, and the Netherlands), the volume demonstrates how women "write back" to Western gazes, decolonize memory, and unsettle entrenched hierarchies that continue to position Eastern Europe as the "other Europe" even after the fall of communism and EU integration. By combining transnational, transdisciplinary, and embodied approaches from the fields of life writing, literature, and memory studies, this volume proposes alternative modes of scholarly engagement that privilege personal experiences, relationality, vulnerability, and genuine exchange over abstraction, offering new perspectives on how European identities, histories, and futures might be thought together.Facilitating a distinctive collaboration among scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in women’s life writing, European memory, memory studies, contested memory, post-communist Europe, and East-West perceptions.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Simona Mitroiu is a senior researcher at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania.Marleen Rensen is an associate professor in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Anna Seidl, a former principal dancer of the Het National Ballet (HNB, Amsterdam), is a senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Ivana Taranenková is a senior research fellow and the director of the Institute of Slovak Literature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.Catherine Teissier is a senior lecturer for German Studies at Aix-Marseille University, France.

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'The Transformative Power of Women’s Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe is a rich and engaging collection that examines women’s life narratives shaped by post-communist experiences, migration, and East–West imaginaries. Through studies of memoir, autobiography, graphic narrative, autofiction, and embodied forms of self-representation, it introduces readers to compelling voices, recent experiences, and cultural contexts often overlooked in European literary and memory studies. Emerging from sustained East–West scholarly encounters, the volume is distinguished by its collaborative and dialogic ethos as well as the breadth and originality of its corpus. Thoughtfully curated and wide-ranging in scope, it will be of interest to scholars working at the intersection of life-writing, memory, and European studies.'Ioana Luca, Professor of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.'This carefully edited interdisciplinary volume is a fruit of the collective labour of gathering cultural testimony and witnessing to the vicissitudes of memory in the period of post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe. Focusing on such places as Ukraine, the former GDR, Romania, Slovakia, and others, the essays gathered here speak to the challenges of post-Cold War dialogue among the continent’s disparate regions and identities. Attuned to the intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, geography, and race, the collection offers a much-needed intervention into Europe’s grand imaginary, exposing its geographical fractures, historical amnesia, and orientalizing tendencies along the West-East fault lines. This contribution widens an auto/biography studies’ perspective by introducing a cluster of experimental and embodied life writing practices that use their liminal positionality as a site of memory activism.'Eva C. Karpinski, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.

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