gender, nation, and immigration in contemporary Europe /
First Statement of Responsibility
Gisela Brinker-Gabler and Sidonie Smith, editors
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xi, 392 pages :
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illustrations ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in the New Europe / Sidonic Smith and Gisela Brinker-Gabler -- 1. Ethnicity on the French Frontier / Winifred Woodhull -- 2. Narrative Strategies and Postcolonial Identity in Contemporary France: Leila Sebbar's Les Carnets de Sherazade / Francoise Lionnet -- 3. (Con)figuring Identity: Cultural Space of the Indo-British Border Intellectual / Gita Rajan -- 4. Black British Women Writing the Anti-Imperialist Critique / Carole Boyce Davies -- 5. Looking through Non-Western Eyes: Immigrant Women's Autobiographical Narratives in Italian / Graziella Parati -- 6. Exile in the Promised Land: Self-Decolonization and Bodily Re-Membering in Ken Bugul's The Abandoned Baobab / Julia Watson -- 7. Reclaiming Space: Jewish Women in Germany Today / Karen Remmler -- 8. Hidden Subjects, Secret Identities: Figuring Jews, Gypsies, and Gender in 1990s Cinema of Eastern Europe / Catherine Portuges