Narrating (Hi)Stories in Decentering Europe
Call for papers
Plurilingual Futures: Voices, Practices, and Reimagining Europe
WHAT IS IT
ABOUT
This NEOLAiA transnational and interdisciplinary research group explores hybrid narrative forms as tools for creating meaningful hermeneutical patterns tied to lived experiences, memory, and, following Donna Haraway, situated knowledges, particularly in relation to historical crises and disruptions.
Our Objectives
Through this analysis, we aim to:
Reinterpret the concept of Europe using boundary-transcultural and counter-factual narratives.
Address themes such as:
- Hegemony
- Migration
- Decolonisation
Foster a more decentered understanding of Europe.
Scope of Research
We examine a wide range of narrative forms, including:
Oral and written stories
Factual and fictional accounts
Individual and collective narratives
Texts Under Analysis
Our research encompasses various types of texts, such as:
Autobiographies and memoirs
Works of fiction
Biographies
Collective narratives
National stories
Subjects of Focus
The range of subjects we explore includes, but is not limited to:
History and life-writing
History and memory narratives
Relations between fiction and document: fact-fiction, ego-document and ego history, etc
Hegemonic narratives and subaltern communities’ stories
Oral narratives as a source of knowledge and as a strategy of meaning-making
Narrative identities and traumas, narrative therapy
Facts and their discursive representations: boundaries, border liners, hybrid entities
Material history and literary history
Post-truth and post-factual societies
Narratives, media and remediations: written, visual, multimedia and cross media narratives
Historicity of narrative paradigms: continuity and discontinuity in narrative models within literary history
Coordinators
Dr. Beatriz Valverde
Email: bvalverd@ujaen.es
Cécile Chapon
Email: cecile.chapon@univ-tours.fr