On tracing the radical revisionism of American Studies' cultural and methodological paradigms, this intervention will specifically investigate the multicultural and transnational turn of the field, whose material and conceptual boundaries have been increasingly confronting other extra-national literary traditions, such as those from the Indian subcontinent. The relationship between the USA and the postcolonial diasporas from India and Pakistan resounds with the political and intellectual Asian American experience of the Sixties and the Seventies, and configures a literary space that simultaneously addresses the migratory flows from many South Asian countries in the last decades of the previous century, as well as globalization's challenges: citing works by first and second generation South Asian American writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, I will highlight the complex intercultural dialogue that these authors entertain with multiple linguistic and national collectivities.
Tracciando le linee storiche del ripensamento radicale dei paradigmi culturali e metodologici alla base degli studi americani, il seguente intervento prenderà in considerazione la dimensione multiculturale e transnazionale di un'americanistica i cui confini reali e concettuali si interfacciano con altre tradizioni letterarie extra-nazionali, come quelle provenienti dal subcontinente indiano. Il rapporto tra gli Stati Uniti e le diaspore postcoloniali dall'India e dal Pakistan, che si snoda attraverso l'esperienza politica e intellettuale asiaticoamericana degli anni '60 e '70, riconfigura un panorama letterario che risponde simultaneamente ai fenomeni migratori degli ultimi decenni del XX secolo e alle sfide della globalizzazione: citando opere di autori di prima e seconda generazione sud asiaticoamericana, come Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee e Jhumpa Lahiri, metterò in evidenza il complesso dialogo interculturale che questi autori e le loro opere intrattengono con multiple tradizioni linguistiche e realtà nazionali.
Gli studi americani e le letterature della diaspora indiana: un orizzonte comparatistico.
Raffaella Malandrino
2020-01-01
Abstract
On tracing the radical revisionism of American Studies' cultural and methodological paradigms, this intervention will specifically investigate the multicultural and transnational turn of the field, whose material and conceptual boundaries have been increasingly confronting other extra-national literary traditions, such as those from the Indian subcontinent. The relationship between the USA and the postcolonial diasporas from India and Pakistan resounds with the political and intellectual Asian American experience of the Sixties and the Seventies, and configures a literary space that simultaneously addresses the migratory flows from many South Asian countries in the last decades of the previous century, as well as globalization's challenges: citing works by first and second generation South Asian American writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, I will highlight the complex intercultural dialogue that these authors entertain with multiple linguistic and national collectivities.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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