Writing New Identities : Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe.
Material type: TextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816685974Subject(s): Emigration and immigration in literature | Ethnicity -- Europe | Europe -- Emigration and immigration | Migration, Internal -- Europe | Nationalism -- Europe | Nationalism in literature | Women in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing New Identities : Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary EuropeDDC classification: 304.8/2/094 LOC classification: JV7590 -- .W75 1997ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in the New Europe -- Part I. Post/Coloniality in the New Europe -- 1 Ethnicity on the French Frontier -- 2 Narrative Strategies and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary France: Leïla Sebbar's Les Carnets de Shérazade -- 3 (Con)figuring Identity: Cultural Space of the Indo-British Border Intellectual -- 4 Black British Women Writing the Anti-Imperialist Critique -- 5 Looking through Non-Western Eyes: Immigrant Women's Autobiographical Narratives in Italian -- 6 Exile in the Promised Land: Self-Decolonization and Bodily Re-Membering in Ken Bugul's The Abandoned Baobab -- Part II. The New Europe and Its Old Margins -- 7 Reclaiming Space: Jewish Women in Germany Today -- 8 Hidden Subjects, Secret Identities: Figuring Jews, Gypsies, and Gender in 1990s Cinema of Eastern Europe -- 9 Migrants' Literature or German Literature? Torkan's Tufan: Brief an einen islamischen Bruder -- 10 Scheherazade's Daughters: The Thousand and One Tales of Turkish-German Women Writers -- 11 "Life from Its Very Beginning at Its End": The Unhomely Boundaries in the Works of Bulgarian Author Blaga Dimitrova -- 12 Exile, Immigrant, Re/Unified: Writing (East) Postunification Identity in Germany -- Part III. Nationalisms, Gender, and Sexualities -- 13 EU-phoria? Irish National Identity, European Union, and The Crying Game -- 14 Maternal Abject, Fascist Apocalypse, and Daughter Separation in Contemporary Swedish Novels -- 15 Ona: The New Elle-Literacy and the Post-Soviet Woman -- 16 What Are Women Made Of? Inventing Women in the Yugoslav Area -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
The essays in Writing New Identities address the changing notions of community that the New Europe faces as a result of the large numbers of immigrants and migrant workers seeking work and refuge within its borders.
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