TY - BOOK ID - 21973341 TI - Paradoxes of postcolonial culture PY - 2004 SN - 9780791462010 0791462013 0791484513 1423740076 9781423740070 9780791484517 9780791484517 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Migration. Refugees KW - English literature KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Africa KW - India: East KW - Indic literature (English) KW - American literature KW - Italian literature KW - East Indian American women KW - Immigrants' writings KW - East Indians KW - Emigration and immigration in literature. KW - Africans KW - East Indian Americans in literature. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - South Asians in literature. KW - Women and literature. KW - Literature KW - Ethnology KW - Asian Indians KW - Indians, East KW - Indians (India) KW - Indic peoples KW - Writings of immigrants KW - Women, East Indian American KW - Women KW - Ottovolante (Group of writers) KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Indo-English literature KW - Indic literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism. KW - South Asian American authors KW - South Asian authors KW - Intellectual life. KW - Littérature de l'Inde de langue anglaise KW - Littérature américaine KW - Littérature anglaise KW - Littérature postcoloniale KW - Écrits d'immigrés KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Femmes écrivains KW - Histoire et critique KW - Auteurs d'origine asiatique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21973341 AB - 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 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. ER -