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Voci sovversive e gerarchie familiari in "They Make a Desert and Call It Peace" di Marina Warner
2020
This essay examines the way Marina Warner's radio play They Make a Desert and Call it Peace (2014) and its fictional reworking of contemporary news such as the Bloody Sunday report and the investigation of the Gaza Flotilla Raid of 30 May 2010. After a presentation of the development of radio plays in England, the essay shows what interest they have generated among feminist writers and how Warner uses the voice of women in her play, which also serves as a rewriting of the biblical story of Salome, to question the transmission of the memory of traumatic events such as the Bloody Sunday. The play overturns the point of view from that of the master narrative, emphasized by media and institutio…
Notte e rifugio.
2020
Night and Refuge is the translation of some stanzas from the collaborative poem Night and Refuge written on May 20, 2020, during the lockdown for Covid-19, by Caroline Bergvall, Will Harris, Vahni Capildeo, Nisha Ramayya, Leo Boix. The collaborative writing event is one of the moments in Caroline Bergvall's project, Sonic Atlas.
Introduzione alla sezione Acoustic literature: Voice, sound and silence in contemporary literature and the media
2020
This text is a short introduction to the monographic section "Acoustic literature: Voice, sound and silence in contemporary literature and the media" in InVerbis anno 10, n. 2, 2020. It carries out a reflection on Sound Studies and contemporary literature and presents the articles and poetic works included in the section.