A Ficção de Bharati Mukherjee: Representações de Imigrantes nos Estados Unidos na Pós-Modernidade
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o artigo começa por ressaltar a invisibilidade do colonizado nas literaturas coloniais, espetacularmenteilustrada por alguns contos de Kipling, entre os quais, "Wayside Comedy" e "Just a Subaltern ". Examina, a seguir, a visibilidade do Outro na literatura recente, especialmente aforma pela qual o sujeito pós-colonial se projeta naficção pós-colonial. Nos contos da escritora indiana Bharati Mukherjee, residente nos Estados Unidos, isso acontece de forma particularmente interessante, no tom paródico caro à ficção pós-moderna. A velha relação especular entre o Mesmo e o Outro pode persistir, embora a nova visibilidade do oprimido resulte numa interpretação grotesca tanto do sujeito quanto do objeto da relação neo-colonial. Por outro lado, a representação das relações entre imigrantes e a cultura hegemônica nos Estados Unidos é freqüentemente problematizada e relativizada. Os corolários dessas idéias são desenvolvidos e ilustrados em relação aos contos de Mukherjee "The Tenant" e "Orbiting ", que integram a coleção The Middleman and Other Stories.
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