Interconnections and tensions between postcolonialism and feminism in South Asian women poets: the case of Meena Alexander, Suniti Namjoshi and Imtiaz Dharker

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dc.contributor.advisor Bassi, Shaul
dc.contributor.author Basset, Stefania <1983> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2014-04-11T10:56:04Z
dc.date.available 2014-04-11T10:56:04Z
dc.date.issued 2014-03-14
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4614
dc.description.abstract Questo lavoro è incentrato sul rapporto tra postcolonialismo e femminsmo nell'opera di tre poetesse provenienti dal subcontinente indiano: Meena Alexander, Suniti Namjoshi e Imtiaz Dharker, che si interrogano sui conflitti in atto nel posizionarsi come scrittrici non bianche in un mondo dominato da scrittori bianchi, a maggior ragione in virtù della loro compelssa geografia personale, frutto di molteplici migrazioni. Sempre a cavallo tra culture a volte in conflitto tra loro, queste scrittrici sono particolarmente sensibili all'intersecarsi di diversi assi - di genere, di provenienza geografica, di religione, di sessualità e così via - lungo i quali si posiziona l'esperienza della scrittura femminile. La poesia, con le sue ambiguità e le sue flessibilità linguistiche, risulta per queste autrici un mezzo particolarmente efficace per indagare un'interiorità ricca di interrogativi e conflitti. it_IT
dc.description.abstract This study focuses on the relationship between postcolonialism and feminism in the work of three poets stemming from the Indian subcontinent: Meena Alexander, Suniti Namjoshi and Imtiaz Dharker. These three writers investigate the conflicts involved in positioning themselves as writers of colour in a world dominated by white writers, something that is amplified by their complex personal geography involving multiple dislocations. Always straddling different cultures sometimes in conflict one with the other, these writers are particularly well-suited to discuss the intersections between different axes - of gender, geographical provenance, religion, sexuality, and so on - along which the experience of women's writing is located. Poetry, with its ambiguities and linguistic flexibility, is for these writers a particularly incisive means to investigate an inner self rich in questions and conflicts. it_IT
dc.language.iso eng it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it
dc.rights © Stefania Basset, 2014 it_IT
dc.subject Indian women writers it_IT
dc.subject Postcolonialism it_IT
dc.subject Feminism it_IT
dc.subject Poetry it_IT
dc.title Interconnections and tensions between postcolonialism and feminism in South Asian women poets: the case of Meena Alexander, Suniti Namjoshi and Imtiaz Dharker it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis en
dc.degree.name Lingue, culture e societa' it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it
dc.degree.grantor Scuola di dottorato in Lingue, culture e società it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2014 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 26 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Villari, Enrica
dc.location.shelfmark D001334 it
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955804 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber [5], 306 p. it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/10 LETTERATURA INGLESE it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent PREFACE, 1 THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS, 1.1 Why Women Writers? 1.2 Why Women Writers of Colours? 1.3 Why Transnational Women Writers? 1.4 Why South Asian Women Writers? 1.5 Why Poetry? 2. MEENA ALEXANDER 2.1 Biographical Introduction 2.2 Stylisitc and Thematic Presentation 2.3 "Alphabets of Flesh": Language, Body and Violence 2.3.1 Body, Memory and Space 2.3.2 Violence and the Body 2.3.3 "Alphabets of Flesh" and Stone-eating Girls 2.4 Palimpsests of Place 2.5 A "Back Against the Wall Aesthetic": Double Binds and Conflicts 2.6 "Brown Skin, What Mask": theoretical reflections 3 SUNITI NAMJOSHI 3.1 Biographical Introduction 3.2 Stylistic and Thematic Presentation 3.3 Early Collections of Poems and Self-Censorship . . . it_IT
dc.degree.discipline Letteratura inglese e postcoloniale it_IT


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