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Enza Maria Ester Gendusa
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De-essentializing Higher Education Curricula: Re-inscriptions of the British and Euro-Mediterranean Identity Mosaic in Doris Lessing’s and Bernardine…
2010
La ragazza nera alla ricerca di Dio
2020
The volume offers the Italian public a new translation of George Bernard Shaw's novella, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932), with its facing-page original. In the novella contemporary readers will find the innovative figuration of a young black woman who, along her personal search for God, deconstructs the false myths of the great religions and of European civilization with iconoclastic force, uncovering their contradictions with geopolitical far-sightedness.
Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Subverting the Masculinity of World War I Official Discourse
2014
Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991) offers an imaginative deconstruction of the myth of the Great War as produced within British official patriotic rhetoric and in some of the best-known lyrics by Wilfred Owen (1893- 1918), who, together with Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), has always been celebrated as one of the leading War poets. If Owen’s poetry partly entails the apolitical sublimation of the devastating facts of war through the ambiguous sentiment of pity, in Barker’s novel any suppression of emotions is posited as artificial and counterbalanced by a thorough exploration of those contradictory aspects of the Great War which official discourses have tended to obscure: the homoerotic experi…
Symbiosis of cosmopolitan identities in Turkey and Roman London: The role of literary tradition in Bernardine Evaristo’s revision of Euro-Mediterrane…
2009
The White Woman’s Haunted Body in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing
2012
Underpinned by an interpretative grid where the analytic categories of gender and race are interwoven, the paper contends that Doris Lessing’s first novel, The Grass Is Singing (1950), unveils and dismantles culturally-constructed inscriptions of the white female body as elaborated within the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British colonial discourses and largely reproduced at folk level. Exploring Lessing’s robust delineation of the entanglements of gendered sexuality and race-biased social constraints as active in the colonial context, the paper also suggests that the novel problematizes and recasts traditional British identity configurations from an authorial perspective which po…
Fusioni e metamorfosi: le articolazioni del femminismo e del postcolonialismo nella narrativa storica di Marina Warner
2007
Re-reading Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures through Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists
2017
The essay illustrates the ways in which the incorporation of authentic excerpts from Mary Seacole’s autobiography in Bernardine Evaristo’s novel Soul Tourists acquires a significant cultural value within the novel’s representational strategies. The essay also explores the extent to which Seacole — together with her work — can be thought of as a litmus paper in the context of Britain’s self–representation and strategies of identity delineation.
Bernardine Evaristo con Alastair Niven
2007
Identità nere e cultura europea. La narrativa di Bernardine Evaristo
2014
Informed by a theoretical-critical grid in which the main hermeneutical paradigms of Gender theories, British cultural studies and Post-colonial studies converge to intersect in an inextricable way with the theories of Black British feminism, Black British cultural studies and of “Critical Mixed Race Studies”, the monograph focuses on the interpretative analysis of the narrative production of Bernardine Evaristo, a London-born Anglo-Nigerian Booker-winner writer, who is now considered one of the most original voices in the contemporary British literary scene. On the basis of a complex theoretical-interpretative paradigm, within which the analytical categories of gender and "race" are concei…
Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara: Hybridized Dynamics of Identity Formation
2009
Deconstruction and Re-writing of Englishness and the European Cultural Identity in Bernardine Evaristo's Narrative
2011
If analysed through a theoretical grid whose critical paradigms originate within an analytical area where British cultural studies, gender and postcolonial studies interweave Bernardine Evaristo's fictions shows peculiar narrative strategies – in terms of genre, stylistic experimentation (novels-inverse and a novel-with-verse) and inspiring motifs – which allow her (from the specific perspective of an ANglo-Nigerian London-born wiman writer of mixed origins) to intervene within traditionally hegemonic representational circuits – be they British or European – so contributing to re-write/re-right the notion of English national identity and to re-examine European history from new nonexclusiona…
Black European Inscriptions and the Challenge to Modern Essentialist Identities: The Case of Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists
2013
This essay shows how the London-born Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo contributes, with her Soul Tourists (2005), to deconstructing modern European nationalist and racially exclusivist models by means of anti-essentialist representational strategies. Centred around the voyage by car and across Europe which, in the late eighties, leads two black Britons, Stanley Williams and Jessie O’Donnell, from England to the Middle East, the novel becomes an imaginative vehicle through which Evaristo represents the black presence as intrinsic to Europe since the th century and foregrounds the substantial contribution of black and mixed-race men and women to the cultural development of Western …
La casa dei pazzi di Palermo di N. P. Willis
2007
Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara: Transnational Axes of Identity Articulation
2010
Communicative Method and Paradigms of Gender and (Post-)colonial Studies in the Foreign Language and Literature Class as Activators of Cognitive Dece…
2009
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: De-essentialising Euro-Mediterranean History
2011
Informed by an interpretative framework where the theoretical paradigms of British Cultural studies and Black feminism inextricably interweave, the paper aims at illustrating a complex identity model of the Black British woman as delineated in Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001). Published at the turn of the 21st century, Evaristo’s second novel-in-verse revolves around the life-experience of a young black woman born of Sudanese parents in Roman London, Zuleika, who ends up having an intense relationship with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. In its highly orchestrated narrative fabric where prose and poetry conflate, this unconventional historical novel…
Re-inscriptions of the Black British Identity Mosaic in Bernardine Evaristo’s Early Fiction
2010
Contradictions of Gender and ‘Imaginative’ Representations of a (Post-)colonial Nation. E. Brodber’s Myal, A. Roy’s The God of Small Things and B. Ev…
2006
The article illustrates the ways in which the productive theoretical conflation of feminist critique and (post)colonial studies makes it possible to demonstrate that the implications of the category of gender and 'race' allow Erna Brodber's Myal (1988), Bernardine Evaristo's Lara (1997) and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997) to contribute to imaginatively reshaping the postcolonial nation.
Asimmetrie di genere e di razza in The Grass is Singing di Doris Lessing
2011
Published in the early 1950s, The Grass is Singing (1950), the first work by Doris Lessing (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007), through the deconstruction of certain normative characters traditionally attributed to Englishness, anticipates in its narrative plot some of those founding issues that, in the decades to come, would be explored both by the theoretical-critical writings of Second Wave Feminism and within that complex study field which became known over the Seventies, such as (post-) colonial studies. In the novel, the body of the white colonial woman living in the colonies is depicted as the site of opposite tensions and the traditional homogeneity of the group…
L’universo atlantico di Sacred Hunger
2007
Doris Lessing
2008
Le scuole di Palermo, trad. di 'Schools in Palermo' di Annie Leigh Smith
2009
Tropes of Travel in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels
2011
This paper is informed by an interpretative framework in which the theoretical paradigms of Cultural, Gender, (Post-)colonial and Tourism studies are interwoven. It is claimed that fostering a specific kind of literary and cultural tourism, centred on (post-)colonial authors’ works, might emerge as a political practice able to reshape the self-fashioning of Western European cultural heritage in non-essentialized terms. Consequently, this would also help promote cross-cultural exchanges. In this respect, Lara (1997), The Emperor’s Babe (2001) and Soul Tourists (2005), the first three novels by the London-born Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo, appear to be extremely relevant literary…
Cross-cultural Post-colonial Symbioses in Bernardine Evaristo’s Novels and Literary Tourism: Towards a Non-Eurocentric Redefinition of Locality
2010
This essay illustrates the strategies through which literary tourism can activate transformative cultural strategies within the wider context non-Eurocentric definitions of locality.
Re-Inscription of Female Images and Subjectivities in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride
2012
In exploring the complex female identity models that are articulated in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride, this essay foregrounds Atwood’s sensitiveness to one of the major feminist issues of the early nineties: the debate over whether it is/was possible to postulate a distinctive “female specialness”. The essay's specific contention is that, in outlining the complex experiences of three Canadian friends – Tony, Roz and Charis – and of their demonic antagonist, Zenia, across three decades (from the sixties to the early nineties), Atwood questions notions of biological reductionism and, more importantly, the feminist creed of universal sisterhood4.