{"id":1227,"date":"2020-12-25T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/?page_id=1227"},"modified":"2020-12-25T00:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T22:56:14","slug":"womens-narratives-of-transnational-relocation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanstudies.ro\/ro\/womens-narratives-of-transnational-relocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Narratives of Transnational Relocation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Titlu proiect \/ Project Title<\/strong>: Naratiuni ale femeilor in situatii de relocare transnationala<\/em> \/ Women’s Narratives of Transnational Relocation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sursa de finantare \/ Financing<\/strong>: UEFISCDI, prin programul national de cercetare, PN-II-RU-TE, competitia Tinere Echipe din anul 2011 \/ National Council for Scientific Research \u2013 PN-II-RU-TE Programme, 2011 annual competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Durata proiectului \/ Project Duration<\/strong>: 2 ani (octombrie 2011 \u2013 septembrie 2013) \/ 2 years (October  2011 \u2013 September 2013).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Membrii proiectului \/ Project Members<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conf. dr. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru – director<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. dr. Madalina Nicolaescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lect. dr. Mihaela Precup<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lect. dr. Dana Mihailescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drd. Diana Benea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rezumat – obiective si activitati \/ Project summary – objectives and activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The field of our research project is cross-disciplinary and is constituted at the intersection of globalization studies (focusing on the cutting edge of transnational migration), gender studies, studies in the new media and literary studies. The starting point is a publication edited by two members of this team (Women\u2019s Voices in Post-Communist Eastern Europe<\/em>, eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Madalina Nicolaescu and Helen Smith, Vol. I, Rewriting Histories<\/em>, 2005 and Vol. II, Bodies and Representations<\/em>, 2006), which at the time filled a gap Eastern European countries had in the knowledge about each other\u2019s literatures written by women recovering from communist trauma and rewriting its histories. The two volumes became internationally visible very quickly, entering the collections of prestigious university libraries abroad and being reviewed in the ISI journal Comparative Literature Studies<\/em> (45.2, 2008, pp. 261-263). The present project aims to continue along those lines and study narratives by and about women engaged in temporary and permanent transnational relocation after the fall of communism, under the impact of globalization and identity-reconfiguration phenomena such as EU-enlargement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will explore a new paradigm of transnational migration that displaces previous theorization based on linear, margin-to-centre movement and insists on multiple connectivities and translocal allegiances. This implies both integration in the host society and the temporary and\/or partial movement back home, currently facilitated by progress in means of transport and of communication. As the conditions of migrant life are changing, the strategies of overcoming the trauma of translocation are also unexpected: the attempt to fully recreate one\u2019s culture into a new space to the point of resisting new cultural norms, while transnational connections enabled by new technologies of communication stress the disolution of family ties instead of reinforcing them. In this context, gender has increasingly been identified as a key category to transnational migration, to the constitution of transnational subjectivities, identities and communities and to pressing issues such as transnational families and mothering. Whereas most of the current studies engage with issues confronting Asian or Latin American migrant women, the recent massive flow of East European women to Western European countries and\/or the USA has been largely understudied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our project aims to cover this insufficiently visible space through a contrastive analysis between narratives which have taken the form of acknowledged, published books and informal (discursive or non-discursive) narratives disseminated by the new media and in digital form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publica\u0163ii \u00een cadrul proiectului \/ Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013
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Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina and Madalina Nicolaescu, eds.<\/strong> Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women\u2019s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium. <\/em>Berlin: LIT Verlag (Contributions to Transnational Feminisms series), 2013.<\/a> 304 pages. ISBN 978-3-643-90448-9    [Table of contents<\/a>] [Publication date note<\/a>] Link to publisher’s site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Mihailescu.<\/strong> “Being Off-Track: Returns to Post-Communist Spaces and Transits around the U.S. as Fertile Acts of Dislocation in Svetlana Boym’s Works<\/a>.” Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women\u2019s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium<\/em>. Eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, M\u0103d\u0103lina Nicolaescu, Helen Smith. Graz: Lit Verlag (Contributions to Transnational Feminism Series), 2013. 211-227.
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Madalina Nicolaescu. <\/strong>\u201cRomanian Women\u2019s Success Stories as Transnational Migrants.\u201d Between History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women\u2019s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium<\/em>. Eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, M\u0103d\u0103lina Nicolaescu, Helen Smith. Graz: Lit Verlag (Contributions to Transnational Feminism Series), 2013.
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Mihaela Precup. <\/strong>\u201cFelines and Females on the Fringe: Femininity and Dislocation in Nina Bunjevac\u2019s Heartless<\/em>.\u201dBetween History and Personal Narrative: East-European Women\u2019s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium<\/em>. Eds. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, M\u0103d\u0103lina Nicolaescu, Helen Smith. Graz: Lit Verlag (Contributions to Transnational Feminism Series), 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Mihailescu.<\/strong> \u201cChildren\u2019s Erratic Memories of the Holocaust: On Cross-Cutting Exchanges in Exhibitions and Visual Projects about Child Survivors and Children of Survivors<\/a>.\u201d Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review<\/em> (Special Issue on Children, November 2013): 93-108. <http:\/\/www.ceeol.com\/aspx\/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationid=ead63137-e2d3-4efe-bc3f-9bdf32e742f4<\/a>>.  ISSN: 1224-6271.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mihaela Precup. <\/strong>\u201cChildren, Heroes, and Foes in a Communist Family Album.\u201d Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review<\/em> (Special Issue on Children, November 2013): 19-33. <http:\/\/www.ceeol.com\/aspx\/publicationdetails.aspx?publicationid=ead63137-e2d3-4efe-bc3f-9bdf32e742f4<\/a>>.  ISSN: 1224-6271.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Mihailescu.<\/strong> \u201cPhotography and Prose Pictures in Beloved<\/em>: The Frames of Emotional Memory.\u201d Toni Morrison – Au-del\u00e0 du visible ordinaire \/ Toni Morrison – Beyond the Ordinary Visible<\/em>. Eds. Maryemma Graham, Janis Mayes and Andr\u00e9e-Anne Kekeh. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, forthcoming 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina. “From Travelling Memoir to Nomadic Narrative in Kapka Kassabova\u2019s Street without a Name <\/em>and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story.<\/em>” In Women’s Transnational Literatures in Europe<\/em>, eds. Jasmina Lukic and Borbala Farago, Budapest: CEU Press (forthcoming 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolaescu, Madalina. “De-centering Narratives of Success.” In Women’s Transnational Literatures in Europe<\/em>, eds. Jasmina Lukic and Borbala Farago, Budapest: CEU Press (forthcoming 2014).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina.<\/strong> \u201cNomadic Textualities: Time, Space and Narrative in M.G. Vassanji\u2019s The Assassin\u2019s Song<\/em> and Vikram Chandra\u2019s Red Earth and Pouring Rain.<\/em>\u201d India in Canada, Canada in India<\/em>, ed. Antonia Navarro si Taniya Gupta, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 48-55. ISBN: 978-1-4438-4826-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina.<\/strong> \u201cUrban and Rural Narratives of Female Relocation in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni\u2019s Novels Queen of Dreams <\/em>and <\/a>The Mistress of Spices<\/a>.<\/em>\u201d American, British and Canadian Studies<\/em>, no. 19 (Dec. 2012). ISSN 1841-1487 (Print) si ISSN 1841-964X (Online)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mih\u0103ilescu, Dana.<\/strong> \u201cThe Legacy of Communism through a Child\u2019s Lens: The Thrusts of Emotional Knowledge out of Marzi\u2019s <\/em>Poland<\/a>.\u201d Literary and Visual Dimensions of Contemporary Graphic Narratives<\/em>. Eds. M\u00e1ria Ki\u0161\u0161ov\u00e1 and Simona Heve\u0161iov\u00e1. Nitra: Constantine the Philosopher University Press, 2012. 45-75. ISBN: 978-80-558-0099-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conferin\u0163e organizate \u00een cadrul proiectului \/ <\/strong>Conferences organized within our project <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between History and<\/strong> Personal Narrative:<\/strong> East-European<\/strong> Women\u2019s Stories of Migration in the New Millennium<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

21-22 September, 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Bucharest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Studies Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Str Pitar Mos 7-13, Room 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference is organized as part of the project Women\u2019s Narratives of Transnational Relocation <\/em>(PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0159).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, September 21, 2012                                                                                                       <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-10:15 Welcome and Short Description of the Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15-11:30 Keynote Lecture 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jasmina Luki<\/strong>c (<\/strong>Central European University, Budapest), \u201cMigrant Women\u2019s Literature in Transnational Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-13:30 Session 1: Migration, Gender Roles and Stories of Success and Failure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Jasmina Luki<\/strong>c<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simona Fojtov\u00e1 (Transylvania University in Lexington), \u201cEast-European Women\u2019s Stories of Agency in Sex Work Migration\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u0103d\u0103lina Nicolaescu (University of Bucharest), \u201cRomanian Women\u2019s Success Stories of Migration\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Alice Vianello (University of Padua), \u201cRomanian, Moldovan and Ukrainian Transnational Families through Women\u2019s Eyes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernadetta Siara (City University London), \u201cBetween \u2018Escape\u2019 and New Opportunities: Migration Narratives of Polish Women in the UK\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30-14:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30-16:30 Session 2: Transnationalism and Diversity in Women\u2019s Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: M\u0103d\u0103lina Nicolaescu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milica Anti\u0107 Gaber (University of Ljubljana), \u201cOn Their way to the \u2018Room of Their Own\u2019: Women Making and Shaping Their Own Destiny\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristina Bezzi (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso<\/em>, Rovereto), \u201cNot Only \u2018Caregivers\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elena Stoican (University of Bucharest), \u201cLinear Transnationalism in Vesna Goldsworthy and Jhumpa Lahiri\u2019s Fiction\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aija Lulle (University of Latvia), \u201cMigrants, Beauties and Eastern Countrywomen: Gendered Constructions of Latvians in Guernsey\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00-19:00 Session 3: Between Fiction and Memoir in Women\u2019s Relocation Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Dana Mih\u0103ilescu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Priscilla Morris (University of East Anglia), \u201cThe Painter of Bridges: A Sarajevo Story<\/em>.  Transnational Family History and Women\u2019s Migration Narratives in a Siege-Exile Novel\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dina Copelman (George Mason University), \u201cFamily Fragments, Fragmented Families: The Intersections of Subjectivities and Histories\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polina Shvanyukova (University of Bergamo), \u201cFrom Albania via Switzerland to the United States: Elvira Dones\u2019s Journey through Personal Memory and Collective History\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borbala Farago (Central European University), \u201cMigrant Poet(h)ics\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, September 22, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:00-10:15 Registration and Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15-11:30 <\/strong>Keynote Lecture 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silvia Schultermandl (<\/strong>University of Graz), \u201cTransnational Sensibility in Feminist Theory and Practice\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:30-13:30 Session 4: Creative Dislocations in Women\u2019s Migration Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: <\/strong>Silvia Schultermandl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristina Chevere\u015fan (The West University of Timi\u015foara), \u201c\u2018We Are All Foreign Here\u2019: Stories of Re\/Dis-Location in Ioana Baetica Morpurgo\u2019s Imigran\u0163<\/em>ii<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Mih\u0103ilescu (University of Bucharest), \u201cBeing Off-Track: Returns to Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Transits around the U.S. as Fertile Acts of Dislocation in Svetlana Boym\u2019s Works\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mihaela Precup (University of Bucharest), \u201cFelines and Females on the Fringe: Femininity and Dislocation in Nina Bunjevac\u2019s Heartless<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\u011bra Eli\u00e1\u0161ov\u00e1 (Masaryk University, Brno), \u201cPages Torn Off: Narratives of Urban Mobility by Contemporary East and Central European Women Writers\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30-14:30 Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:30-16:30 Session 5: Conflict, War Stories <\/strong>and Transnational Mobility in Women\u2019s Migration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andra-Dina Pan\u0103 (independent researcher), \u201cMediated Transnationalism. Cases of Women\u2019s Involvement in Transnationalism\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zorica Mrsevic (Institute of Social Science, Belgrade), \u201cWar Experiences of Women\/ Oral Histories\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aleksandra Batuchina Ro\ufffdnova (Klaipeda University), \u201cThe Link between the Social State of the Sending Society and Women\u2019s Migration in Lithuania\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alissa Tolstokorova (International School of Equal Opportunities, Kyiv), \u201cOne Way Ticket? International Labour Mobility of Ukrainian Women\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00-19:00 Session 6: Relocation as Reinvention of the Self<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair:<\/strong> Mihaela Precup<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diana Benea (University of Bucharest), \u201c\u2018People move there so light and shameless that they almost touch the sky\u2019: Walking in the City in Herta M\u00fcller\u2019s Traveling on One Leg<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Manolachi (University of Bucharest),\u201cCultural Tractors and Gender Roles in Marina Lewycka\u2019s Debut Novel\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catalina Botez (University of Constance), \u201cTransformative East-West Journeys: Mapping the Transnational in Domnica Radulescu\u2019s Train to Trieste<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru (University of Bucharest), \u201cNomadic Identity Narratives and Female Bonding in Domnica Radulescu\u2019s Black Sea Twilight<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19:15  Conference Dinner (Lente & Cafea, Str. Gen. Praporgescu no 31, Bucharest)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sesiune MLA Chicago 2014 \/ 2014 MLA Chicago Session — organizator \/ organizer Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Approval Letter<\/strong><\/a>
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Titlu proiect \/ Project Title: Naratiuni ale femeilor in situatii de relocare transnationala \/ Women’s Narratives of Transnational Relocation Sursa de finantare \/ Financing: UEFISCDI, prin programul national de cercetare, PN-II-RU-TE, competitia Tinere Echipe din anul 2011 \/ National Council for Scientific Research \u2013 PN-II-RU-TE Programme, 2011 annual competition. Durata proiectului \/ Project Duration: 2 … <\/p>\n

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