Naslov
"The Italian branch of India" : Gabriella Kuruvilla’s literary work torn between the two identities
("The Italian branch of India" : Gabriella Kuruvilla’ s literary work torn between the two identities)

Autori
Mihaljević, Nikica ; Galić Kakkonen, Gordana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Select Conference proceedings in collaboration with Voces Del Caribe "Bridges Across Culture" / Manzari, H. J. - Washington (MD) : Washington and Jefferson College, 2018, 276-294

Skup
7TH International Conference on the Arts and Humanities Bridges Across Culture

Mjesto i datum
Firenca, Italija, 02.07.2015. - 05.07.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
migrant literature ; identity conflict ; prejudice ; marginalization ; discrimination

Sažetak
Among immigrant literature writers we frequently find authors born out of mixed couples. What often characterizes their literary work is repeatedly explored issue of mixed ethnicity, which usually creates an inner conflict in characters. An example of conflict mixed-race heritage we find in the work of Gabriella Kuruvilla, half Italian and half Indian contemporary authoress. Her short stories reveal a perennial identity conflict present in her characters, as well as recurring autobiographical motifs which exteriorize this incessant dissension through the physical and emotional suffering, manifested in frequent representations of body that becomes, at the same time, subject and object of this precarious balance. This dual- identity crisis represents a fundamental element of her literary work, through which the authoress connects the personal identity with the ethnic identity. In this paper the aim is to analyze some Kuruvilla’s short stories focusing in them, in the first place, the issues of identity, of inability to achieve balanced relations as well as of presence of severe emotional dislocation in characters. The analysis should point out the presence of imbalance in characters due to their intrapersonal and intrapsychic conflict which results in the loss of identity. In the paper, the aim is also to show that it is not easy to classify Gabriella Kuruvilla as "second generation immigrant authors" in Italy.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

Napomena
ISSN: 2169-6179

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