04578nam 2200889Ia 450 991080814890332120200520144314.00-7914-8451-31-4237-4007-6(CKB)1000000000458427(OCoLC)62757061(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579252(SSID)ssj0000217896(PQKBManifestationID)11197768(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217896(PQKBWorkID)10213296(PQKB)11783346(MiAaPQ)EBC3407829(MdBmJHUP)muse6193(Au-PeEL)EBL3407829(CaPaEBR)ebr10579252(OCoLC)923409225(DE-B1597)682362(DE-B1597)9780791484517(EXLCZ)99100000000045842720040301d2004 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrParadoxes of postcolonial culture contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora /Sandra Ponzanesi1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20041 online resource (283 p.) SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6201-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.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 -- IndexThis 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.SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.Indic literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureSouth Asian American authorsHistory and criticismEnglish literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticismItalian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismEast Indian American womenIntellectual lifeImmigrants' writingsHistory and criticismEast IndiansEnglandIntellectual lifeEmigration and immigration in literatureAfricansItalyIntellectual lifeEast Indian Americans in literaturePostcolonialism in literatureSouth Asians in literatureWomen and literatureIndic literature (English)Women authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureSouth Asian American authorsHistory and criticism.English literatureSouth Asian authorsHistory and criticism.Italian literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.East Indian American womenIntellectual life.Immigrants' writingsHistory and criticism.East IndiansIntellectual life.Emigration and immigration in literature.AfricansIntellectual life.East Indian Americans in literature.Postcolonialism in literature.South Asians in literature.Women and literature.820.9/9287/0954Ponzanesi Sandra1967-1462597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808148903321Paradoxes of postcolonial culture3976761UNINA