Genevieve Makaping

Broschiertes Buch

Reversing the Gaze

What If the Other Were You?

Herausgeber: Brioni, Simone / Übersetzer: Bellesia Contuzzi, Giovanna; Poletto, Victoria Offredi

Beschreibung

Drawing on her own experiences, Genevieve Makaping spins the customary gaze of anthropology around, and the gaze that in colonial ethnography was directed at the so-called uncivilized indigenous and Black peoples, now focuses on the white majority as seen from her point of view.

Autor

GENEVIÈVE MAKAPING is an adjunct professor in French language and culture at the University of Mantova in Italy, and has taught English at the high school level since 2013. Makaping was born in Cameroon and has lived in Italy since 1982.  SIMONE BRIONI is an associate professor in the Department of English at Stony Brook University in New York. He is the author of The Somali Within: Language, Race and Belonging in Minor Italian Literature and editor of Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora (Rutgers University Press). VICTORIA OFFREDI POLETTO (Senior Lecturer Emerita) and GIOVANNA BELLESIA CONTUZZI (Professor and Chair) have taught and collaborated together in the Department of Italian Studies at Smith College since 1990. They are committed to bringing the voices of migrant and second-generation women writers to the English-speaking world. Their many translations include Adrian Bravi’s My Language is a Jealous Lover, Gabriella Ghermandi’s Queen of Flowers and Pearls, and Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother.  CATERINA ROMEO is an associate professor of literary criticism and comparative literature at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale  [Rewrite the Nation: Postcolonial Italian Literature. 

Produktdetails

• Other Voices of Italy
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 130mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834682
• ISBN-10: 1978834683
• Artikelnr.: 64140025