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The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe: East-West Perceptions and Memory

The Transformative Power of Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Europe: East-West Perceptions and Memory

Mitroiu, Simona
Rensen, Marleen
Seidl, Anna

Hardcover

Series: Memory Studies: Global Constellations

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 26, 2026

ISBN10: 1032988282
ISBN13: 9781032988283
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 26 2026
Pages: 294
Language: English

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.

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