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Retour en Inde d’une expatriée dans la nouvelle “Ciphers” de l’Indo-américaine Ginu Kamani
Abstract : Born in Bombay in 1962, the writer Ginu Kamani emigrated to the United States
with her family at the age of fourteen. As for the Indo-American narrator of her
short-story “Ciphers” (1995), she returns to India after ten years spent building
her identity as a woman in North America. Having only known her homeland
in her childhood, she has not yet experienced the society from which her elders
preferred to emancipate from an adult’s point of view. Between bewitchment and
bitterness, the expatriate who lends her voice to this story evaluates the progress
made, without her, by the women of her former country and her own evolution
without India. Her return offers her the unsettling opportunity to compare her
alleged dissent and her power to those of an Indian mother met during a railway
journey. By the processes of writing and imagination, the values attributed to gender
but also to the here and elsewhere seem reversed. This paper intends to analyze
the ambivalent text which introduces the story collection Junglee Girl, written in
English, by underlining women’s dissidentities. How do Ginu Kamani’s characters
dissent from the stereotyped representations of identities?
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01393621
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Submitted on : Monday, November 7, 2016 - 6:03:23 PM
Last modification on : Monday, January 11, 2021 - 12:16:27 AM
Contributor : Sonja Böttger <>
Submitted on : Monday, November 7, 2016 - 6:03:23 PM
Last modification on : Monday, January 11, 2021 - 12:16:27 AM