If analysed through a theoretical grid whose critical paradigms originate within an analytical area where British cultural studies, gender and postcolonial studies interweave Bernardine Evaristo's fictions shows peculiar narrative strategies – in terms of genre, stylistic experimentation (novels-inverse and a novel-with-verse) and inspiring motifs – which allow her (from the specific perspective of an ANglo-Nigerian London-born wiman writer of mixed origins) to intervene within traditionally hegemonic representational circuits – be they British or European – so contributing to re-write/re-right the notion of English national identity and to re-examine European history from new nonexclusionary perspectives.
Gendusa, E. (2011). Deconstruction and Re-writing of Englishness and the European Cultural Identity in Bernardine Evaristo's Narrative. In R. COLOMBO, L.M. CRISAFULLI, RUGGIERI, F (a cura di), Papers from the 24th AIA Conference. Challenges for the 21st Century. Dilemmas, Ambiguities, Directions (pp. 473-479). Roma : Edizioni Q.
Deconstruction and Re-writing of Englishness and the European Cultural Identity in Bernardine Evaristo's Narrative
GENDUSA, Enza Maria Ester
2011-01-01
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If analysed through a theoretical grid whose critical paradigms originate within an analytical area where British cultural studies, gender and postcolonial studies interweave Bernardine Evaristo's fictions shows peculiar narrative strategies – in terms of genre, stylistic experimentation (novels-inverse and a novel-with-verse) and inspiring motifs – which allow her (from the specific perspective of an ANglo-Nigerian London-born wiman writer of mixed origins) to intervene within traditionally hegemonic representational circuits – be they British or European – so contributing to re-write/re-right the notion of English national identity and to re-examine European history from new nonexclusionary perspectives.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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