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Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
2018
Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery dovetailing with the claims made about white people directly. For the African American first person narrator, Easy Rawlins, living in post-World War II Los Angeles, whiteness mostly spells terror. The oppressive faces of whiteness consist in the following trajectories: property relations, economic exploitation, labour relations, the legal system, different miens of oppressive white masculinity denigrating blackness, spatial dynamics of post-World War II Los Angeles and the w…
Violenza di prossimità. La vittima, il carnefice, lo spettatore e il "grande occhio"
2013
Il volume trova il suo incipit nella constatazione di come, rispetto al passato, la violenza di genere non è rivolta a donne estranee al contesto dei propri carnefici, bensì alle stesse partner – alle donne quindi più prossime ‒ con cui essi condividono una relazione di intimità. L’autrice indica tale violenza, con una scelta terminologica di campo, come “ “violenza di prossimità” per sottolineare come essa venga agita dal “più vicino nella reciproca referenza”. Essa è autosufficiente (1), autoimmune (2) ed escludente il conflitto (3). Si innesta in un contesto oppressivo e rituale, costituendo “quindi” l’asse portante della relazione e definendo pur nella varietà delle modalità – fisiche, …
Non-abusing mothers’ agency after disclosure of the child’s extra-familial sexual abuse
2020
This qualitative study analysed the agency of eight non-abusing mothers in the Turkish Cypriot Community after disclosure that their child had been sexually abused by someone outside the family. The aim was to discover how, after disclosure, such mothers act to protect their children in the contexts of their family and community. The data were gathered via semi-structured in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In the nuclear family context, maternal agency emerged in the form of motherhood skills, including emotionally supporting the abused child, double-checking the child’s safety or limiting the child’s mobility, and controlling the actions…
Emancipazione pubblica e oppressione privata. Tratteggi di una gender violence tardo moderna nell'incrociarsi di paradigmi atlantici e mediterranei
2016
The paper intends to focus on the unfinished character of a slow-modernity where women are still in the balance between legitimacy frame concerning their emancipation in the public sphere, and representation frame of traditional roles of spouse and mother in private life; between postmodern values, accepted rationally, and premodern values, internalized emotionally. It often happens so that even the most educated women of the middle and upper class accept and legitimize in the private sphere the symbolic and indirect violence, and sometimes the physical violence by their partners in an effort to reconcile public post-modern expectations and private pre-modern expectations. As the «Acrobat o…
The troubled identities in the relationship between peers and the role of the viewer
2012
The focus of paper considers the bullying as a state of "oppression" caused by the difficult definition of identity by many teenagers. Today, the violence between peers is characterized as one of the most effective strategies for the construction of atypical identity or "troubled identity", in specific relational contexts (frames)among peer.
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s "Devil in a Blue Dress"
2018
Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery dovetailing with the claims made about white people directly. For the African American first person narrator, Easy Rawlins, living in post-World War II Los Angeles, whiteness mostly spells terror. The oppressive faces of whiteness consist in the following trajectories: property relations, economic exploitation, labour relations, the legal system, different miens of oppressive white masculinity denigrating blackness, spatial dynamics of post-World War II Los Angeles and the w…