%0 Journal Article
%T Gender, migration and agency: developing a ※hauntology§ of new becomings in Shauna Singh Baldwin＊s Devika and in Ginu Kamani＊s Just between Indians = G那nero, migra  o e ag那ncia: o desenvolvimento de uma ＆hauntologia＊ de novas transforma  es em Devika de Shauna Singh Baldwin e Just between Indians de Ginu Kamani
%A Delphine Munos
%J Acta Scientiarum : Language and Culture
%D 2011
%I Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maring芍
%X In recent short stories written by diasporic Indian women writers, changes in terms of location or national identity are generally depicted as providing significant opportunities for Indian women to challenge and revise culturally-inscribed gender roles. In two collections of short stories written respectively by Ginu Kamani and Shauna Singh Baldwin, Junglee Girl and English Lessons and Other Stories, not only are ghosts employed to rupture boundaries between the living and the dead, but they also represent enabling presences which authorize female voices by resurrecting stories of women that have been silenced or forgotten. In these two books, the emergence of the archaic is recurrently tinged with liberating undertones since it opens up new spaces for identity by countering gendered expectations of ＆acceptable＊ behaviour and by constructing alternative realities. My essay will therefore focus on the central metaphors of female ghosts and doubles as transitional figures through which women in transit empower themselves. My aim is to show how culturallydisplaced women appropriate the uncanny so as to engender new identities and assert the value of individual female experience. In these haunted narratives, I will contend, women move from a ghostly time of repetition to a ＆hauntology＊ of new becomings. Nos contos contemporaneos de escritoras indianas diasp車ricas, asmudan as em loca  o ou identidade nacional s o em geral descritas como fatores que proporcionam oportunidades significativas para que as mulheres indianas desafiem e revisem os papeis de g那nero culturalmente inscritos. Em duas cole  es de contos, Junglee Girl e English Lessons and Other Stories, escritos respectivamente por Ginu Kamani e Shauna Singh Baldwin, os fantasmas s o introduzidos n o apenas para quebrar as fronteiras entre os vivos e os mortos, mas para representarem ocasi es que autorizam as vozes femininas pararessuscitar hist車rias de vida feminina que foram silenciadas ou suprimidas. A emerg那ncia de costumes arcaicos 谷 constantemente tingida por contrapontos libertadores j芍 que se abrem novos espa os de identidade por oporem expectativas de g那nero caracterizadas por＆comportamentos aceit芍veis＊ e por constru赤rem realidades alternativas. Focalizam-se as met芍foras de fantasmas femininos e personagens duplas como figuras transit車rias atrav谷s das quais as mulheres diasp車ricas assumem o poder. Verifica-se como as mulheresculturalmente deslocadas se apropriam do estranhamento para constru赤rem novas identidades e afirmarem o valor da experi那ncia feminina. Nestas narrativas de ＆fantasmas＊ as
%K diaspora
%K gender
%K migration
%K uncanny
%K agency
%K India
%K di芍spora
%K g那nero
%K migra  o
%K estranhamento
%K ag那ncia
%K 赤ndia
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