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Paradoxes of postcolonial culture : contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora / Sandra Ponzanesi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ponzanesi, Sandra, 1967-
- Series:
- SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
- SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic literature (English)--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Indic literature (English).
- American literature--South Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--South Asian authors--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Italian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Italian literature.
- East Indian American women--Intellectual life.
- East Indian American women.
- Immigrants' writings--History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings.
- East Indians--England--Intellectual life.
- East Indians.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Africans--Italy--Intellectual life.
- Africans.
- East Indian Americans in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- South Asians in literature.
- Women and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This innovative contribution to understanding the promise and contradictions of contemporary postcolonial culture applies a wide array of theoretical tools to a large body of literature. The author compares the work of established Indian writers including Bharati Mukherjee, Meena Alexander, Sara Suleri, and Sunetra Gupta to new writings by such Afro-Italian immigrant women as Ermina dell'Oro, Maria Abbebù Viarengo, Ribka Sibhatu, and Sirad Hassan. Sandra Ponzanesi's analysis highlights a set of dissymmetrical relationships that are set in the context of different imperial, linguistic, and market policies. By dealing with issues of representation linked to postcolonial literary genres, to gender and ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new élan.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Touchstones
- The Exuberance of Immigration
- The Shock of Arrival
- Alienation and Narration
- Floating Myths
- A Short Story about the Italian Empire
- Daughters of Empire
- Living in Translation
- Voices in Pain: Once We Were Warriors
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791484517
- 0791484513
- 9781423740070
- 1423740076
- OCLC:
- 62757061
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