Writing new identities : gender, nation, and immigration in contemporary Europe / Gisela Brinker-Gabler and Sidonie Smith, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brinker-Gabler, Gisela.

Smith, Sidonie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--Europe.

Migration, Internal.

Nationalism--Europe.

Nationalism.

Ethnicity--Europe.

Ethnicity.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Women in literature.

Europe--Emigration and immigration.

Europe.

Europe--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in Writing New Identities address the changing notions of community that the New Europe faces as a result of the large numbers of immigrants and migrant workers seeking work and refuge within its borders.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in the New Europe

Part I. Post/Coloniality in the New Europe

1 Ethnicity on the French Frontier

2 Narrative Strategies and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary France: Leïla Sebbar's Les Carnets de Shérazade

3 (Con)figuring Identity: Cultural Space of the Indo-British Border Intellectual

4 Black British Women Writing the Anti-Imperialist Critique

5 Looking through Non-Western Eyes: Immigrant Women's Autobiographical Narratives in Italian

6 Exile in the Promised Land: Self-Decolonization and Bodily Re-Membering in Ken Bugul's The Abandoned Baobab

Part II. The New Europe and Its Old Margins

7 Reclaiming Space: Jewish Women in Germany Today

8 Hidden Subjects, Secret Identities: Figuring Jews, Gypsies, and Gender in 1990s Cinema of Eastern Europe

9 Migrants' Literature or German Literature? Torkan's Tufan: Brief an einen islamischen Bruder

10 Scheherazade's Daughters: The Thousand and One Tales of Turkish-German Women Writers

11 "Life from Its Very Beginning at Its End": The Unhomely Boundaries in the Works of Bulgarian Author Blaga Dimitrova

12 Exile, Immigrant, Re/Unified: Writing (East) Postunification Identity in Germany

Part III. Nationalisms, Gender, and Sexualities

13 EU-phoria? Irish National Identity, European Union, and The Crying Game

14 Maternal Abject, Fascist Apocalypse, and Daughter Separation in Contemporary Swedish Novels

15 Ona: The New Elle-Literacy and the Post-Soviet Woman

16 What Are Women Made Of? Inventing Women in the Yugoslav Area

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8597-5

OCLC:

476094211