Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
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Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture

Contemporary Women Writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora

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Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture

Contemporary Women Writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora

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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 AbbebĂč 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 Ă©lan.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780791484517
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Touchstones
  6. 2. The Exuberance of Immigration: Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine
  7. 3. The Shock of Arrival: Meena Alexander, Fault Lines
  8. 4. Alienation and Narration: Sara Suleri, Meatless Days
  9. 5. Floating Myths: Sunetra Gupta, Moonlight into Marzipan
  10. 6. A Short Story about the Italian Empire: From Fascist Propaganda to Postcolonial Representations
  11. 7. Daughters of Empire: MĂ©tissage and Hyphenated Identities: Erminia dell’Oro and Maria AbbebĂč Viarengo
  12. 8. Living in Translation: Ribka Sibhatu, AulĂČ: Canto-Poesia dall’Eritrea
  13. 9. Voices in Pain: Once We Were Warriors: Sirad S. Hassan, Sette Gocce di Sangue
  14. 10. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index