Paradoxes of postcolonial culture
Subtitle: contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora
By: Sandra Ponzanesi.
Series: SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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 Abbebu 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 an ethnicity questions, and to new cartographies of diaspora, this book imbues the postcolonial debate with a new elan."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-257) and index.