Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.
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.
| ISBN: | 9780791462010 |
| Publication date: | 18th November 2004 |
| Author: | Sandra Ponzanesi |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literature: history and criticism |
Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.
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.
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture features in the following genres: Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture is available in Hardback
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture was written by Sandra Ponzanesi and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture has 264 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies series