Paradoxes of postcolonial culture : contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora / / Sandra Ponzanesi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963740803321
• Autore: Ponzanesi Sandra <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004
• ISBN: 9780791484517; 0791484513; 9781423740070; 1423740076
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
• Disciplina: 820.9/9287/0954
• Soggetti: Indic literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism; American literature - South Asian American authors - History and criticism; English literature - South Asian authors - History and criticism; Italian literature - Women authors - History and criticism; East Indian American women - Intellectual life; Immigrants' writings - History and criticism; East Indians - England - Intellectual life; Emigration and immigration in literature; Africans - Italy - Intellectual life; East Indian Americans in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; South Asians in literature; Women and literature
• 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 (p. 235-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.