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Castagna Valentina

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Stories in Transit/Storie in transito: Storytelling and arrivants' voices in Sicily

2018

This chapter describes the international project Stories in Transit/Storie in transito, a storytelling project with young refugees developed and carried out in Palermo by the two authors with the contribution of several scholars, writers, poets, and artists from the United Kingdom, Italy and other countries. The chapter traces the ideas upon which the project is based, voicing the belief of the authors that the expression of culture is a fundamental human right which should be granted to anyone and that literature and orature constitute an immaterial form of shelter. The chapter then offers a short description of the events held in Oxford, Palermo, and London, from the first in May 2016 to …

RefugeeCultural as Human rightStorytellingSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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"Lo specchio della terra": Down Below e le visioni fantasmagoriche di Leonora Carrington

2020

This article focuses on the phantasmagorical vision that can be observed in Leonora Carrington’s memoir Down Below, a work which mingles autobiography with some elements of fiction to tell about the author’s experience of mental disorder during World War II. The work is disseminated with hermetic messages animated by animal transfigurations of human beings and symbolic descriptions of space which are analysed here with the aim to restore literary value to the conscious phantasmagorical representation of this life experience. The memoir is here considered as an admirable surrealist narration of the young artist’s resistance towards family and social constraints. The rich visual language used…

Surrealism Life Writing PhantasmagoriaSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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Abordo del arca de la Señora Noé: los viajes imaginarios de Michèle Roberts.

2017

This article shows how Michèle Roberts portrays the characters in The Book of Mrs Noah as travellers in search for their identities and their dried out creative vein. The imaginary journey on board the Ark can be read as a process of self-empowerment and of acquisition of agency for Mrs. Noah and the other women, Roberts in fact denounces the role of the patriarchal system in silencing women’s voices in society and in literary representations.

Re-writingWomen's writingSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura IngleseMyth
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Eva Figes’s Remediation of The Book of Margery Kempe for BBC Radio 2

2017

In 1985, BBC Radio 2 broadcast the radio play The True Tale of Margery Kempe by contemporary writer Eva Figes (born 1932). The text is a remediation of The Book of Margery Kempe which recovers and gives new life to the tale of Margery Kempe re-instituting the memory of a long-lost manuscript and at the same time giving it back the original characteristics of orality. The narrative strategies adopted by Eva Figes in this adaptation for the radio of the medieval text are influenced by questions linked to the issue of the authorial voice. The transformation of the medium from written text to oral text for the radio gives Figes the opportunity, through directions to the actors, the use of monol…

Radio plays orality adaptationSettore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese
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