REWRITE · Rewriting Migrant Identities across Women’s Literature
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-05-01 → 2023-07-29
- EU contribution
- €183,473
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Rewriting Migrant Identities across Women’s Literature
The questions of identity formation and reconstruction are crucial in today’s debate concerning migration, human rights, and gender equality in Europe. The EU-funded REWRITE project has deepened our understanding of the European Pillar of Social Rights and has helped to rethink the EU’s integration and social cohesion policies through the analysis of the literary production. It has done this by examining migrant literary works produced by women during 20th and 21st centuries. The project has conducted a comparative study on the consequences of deconstructing and reconstructing migrant-women identities. Exploring self-reflexivity in migrant women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, the project has identified turning points that are necessary for identity transformation.The overall objective (OO) has been to highlight: a) the value of a critical and comparative literary analysis form past and present women’s literary production based on migration experiences and identity transformation processes; b) the potential of a hybrid identity de/reconstruction processes in human mobility in the European integration process, to address the current EU’s societal challenges related to migrations/mobility and the visualisation of gender inequalities in critical self-reflexive women’s writings. The main findings establish the existence of a parallel identity of origin/host country. The narrative strategies of transnational writings give rise to an unorganized, unstructured and uninstitutionalized social movement.The writing is a strong tool for denouncing the reality of human mobility and the topics linked to the false integration processes, analysed in the several novels from the intersectional perspective. In the agency of women migrant writers and migrant writing, there is a movement of socio-political and cultural participation and a will for overcoming the mental health problems.
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Project objective
REWRITE will explore identities de/reconstruction processes in the migrant literary works produced by women during the last two centuries, in order to contribute to the European Pillar of Social Rights and to rethink the European Union’s (EU) integration and social cohesion policies from an intersectional perspective. The main aim is to explore the transformation process in migrant women’s identities, by exploring the self-reflexivity in migrant women writers from a critical discourse analysis, advocating for social change, which is crucial for a new understanding of the limitation of politics. REWRITE aims to bridge the gap between gender-based human mobility and social change via the comparative analysis between the European integration policies and the role and impact on the simultaneous processes of identities de/reconstruction, by: 1) analysing existent emblematic novels from 20th and 21st centuries focused on two main dilemmas: identity and belonging; integration and exclusion; 2) creating a new body of critic women’s writings, “tradition much ignored due to the inferior position of women in male-dominated societies”, related to human mobility. The project’s timeline will examine the body of migrant, exile, intercultural literature of women writers from the multidimensional analytical lens of the migratory career (as key for the identification of central turning points articulated in women’s heterogeneous biographies and in-between transformation spaces for self-realisation. Core questions are: Which are the main dominant discourses (systemic) and experiences (individual) about race, class, gender roles, shaping migrant women identities and critical writings, linked to power/oppression relationships? Which are migrant women’s positioning and representations in-between spaces? Might be literature expression of identity construction processes in challenge of dominant writing and opinions? Rethinking identities is relevant for gender equality and social cohesion.
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Participants
- UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · VeneziaCoordinatorItaly
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