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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 304.8/2/094
• Soggetto topico: Migration, Internal - Europe; Nationalism - Europe; Ethnicity - Europe; Emigration and immigration in literature; Nationalism in literature; Women in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Emigration and immigration; Europe Social conditions 20th century
• Altri autori: Brinker-GablerGisela SmithSidonie
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing new identities
• ISBN: 0-8166-8597-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820798303321
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