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Writing New Identities : Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe.
Title:
Writing New Identities : Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe.
Author:
Brinker-Gabler, Gisela.
ISBN:
9780816685974
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (405 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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