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Les genres mineurs dans le monde postcolonial: l'exemple de l'Afrique du Sud
2022
Translation and Migration in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
2010
This study focuses on the relationship between translation and migration in a postcolonial text produced by an immigrant African novelist who experiences culture shock, exile and resistance to the host country.
Another Life
2013
Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, but also Bartolomé de las Casas a…
Postcolonial Ghosts / Fantômes Postcoloniaux
2009
As liminal beings, ghosts seem particularly appropriate to define, question or challenge hybrid cultures where several, seemingly irreconcilable, identities coexist. The present volume wonders how they manifest themselves in the English-speaking world, and whether there is a specifically postcolonial kind of haunting. The 22 articles deal with textual, translational or historical ghosts, and take us to Canada, Australia, Africa, India or the Caribbean. Poems by Gerry Turcotte literally haunt the volume, which thus juxtaposes theory and practice in a dynamic and fruitful way.
Communicative Method and Paradigms of Gender and (Post-)colonial Studies in the Foreign Language and Literature Class as Activators of Cognitive Dece…
2009
"L'Italia altrove. Una lettura postcoloniale delle riviste geografiche italiane (1882-1942)"
I do not intend to speak about; just speak nearby. Riflessioni di Geografia culturale per Lidia Curti
2021
This article introduces a reflection on personal journeys, of dialogues and readings, with Lidia Curti. What is feminine writing? And, what lies behind the screen of representation? These aim at highlighting their political and positional nature within a way of thinking inspired by geographical studies and the feminist thought. So, an attempt to create the bonds for a reflection on the meaning of writing and translation, and on the sense of identity and alterity is made through the voices of authors like Morrison, Devi, and Spivak. It is in the border writing of postcolonial authors that we find a ‘space of in-between’ that allows what has been removed – a testimony of the Mediterranean mat…
“This England”: Re-Visiting Shakespearean Landscapes and Mediascapes in John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010)
2017
The paper will offer a reading of John Akomfrah’s The Nine Muses (2010), a 90-minute experimental feature film that has been defined as “one of the most vital and original artistic responses to the subject of immigration that British cinema has ever produced” (Mitchell). It will focus on the multifarious ways in which the film makes the “canonical” literary material that it incorporates, including Shakespeare, interact with rarely seen archival material from the BBC regarding the experience of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants in 1950s and 1960s Britain. It will argue that through this interaction the familiarity of Western “canonical” literature re-presents itself as an uncanny landscap…
LA DEMOCRAZIA INDIANA. UNA CREAZIONE TRANSCULTURALE
2008
Nel 2007 l’India democratica ha compiuto 60 anni e, avendo raggiunto la stimabile quota di un miliardo e centomilioni di abitanti, si dichiara con orgoglio la più grande democrazia del mondo. Ma quanto è legittimo tale orgoglio? Questa domanda potrebbe interpretarsi in due modi: 1. quanto è democratica la democrazia indiana? Oppure 2. quanto è indiana la democrazia indiana? Cercherò – nella prima parte di questo scritto – di rispondere alla prima domanda introducendo brevemente la storia e l’attualità politica dell’India. Nella parte successiva argomenterò il secondo interrogativo, volendo dimostrare che esso è mal posto e suggerendo un diverso approccio per comprendere le creazioni transcu…
Gli Studi Culturali in India. Il collettivo Subaltern Studies e il discorso postcoloniale da Said a Spivak
2012
Sull'origine e lo sviluppo del collettivo "Subaltern Studies" in India, sul ruolo fondamentale che ha giocato nella formazione degli Studi Culturali e Postcoloniali, e sulla sua diffusione transnazionale.