Title: Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
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.
Subjects: Africans, American literature, East Indian American women, East Indian Americans in literature, East Indians, Emigration and immigration in literature, English literature, History and criticism, Immigrants' writings, Indic literature (English), Intellectual life, Italian literature, Postcolonialism in literature, South Asian American authors, South Asian authors, South Asians in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Indic literature, women authors, Indic literature, history and criticism, American literature, asian american authors, history and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, Italian literature, women authors, Italian literature, history and criticism, East indians, foreign countries, Postcolonialism
Places: England, Italy