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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820798303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8597-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

Brinker-GablerGisela

SmithSidonie

Disciplina

304.8/2/094

Soggetti

Migration, Internal - Europe

Nationalism - Europe

Ethnicity - Europe

Emigration and immigration in literature

Nationalism in literature

Women in literature

Europe Emigration and immigration

Europe Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

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.