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Transizioni. Paradigmi della letteratura tardo-vittoriana e modernista

2008

This article is a review of a volume edited by Mirella Giannitrapani, which welcomes literary essays on English literature from late-nineteenth century to contemporary literature. Among the most famous writers examined in this work: Bennett, Conrad, Forster, Woolf, Warner.

Carrying the Red Man's Burden: Pavel Luknitskii, or Kipling in the Soviet Pamir

2018

Kipling’s work in the Soviet Union was heavily criticized as an expression of imperialism; yet, it was widely read and translated – it was clearly more acceptable than that of Nikolai Gumilev, “the Kipling from Tsarskoe Selo”, a purported counter-revolutionary whose name itself was forbidden. This explains the apparent contradictions in the image of Pavel Luknitskii – from one side, a scholar of Gumilev, from the other, an official Soviet writer. His novel Nisso (1946), based on his travels in the Pamir, is a classic of Soviet literature about the Asian republics. The novel’s plot is built around a classic Colonial triangle, mixed with a typical Soviet collectivization story. The setting pu…

CELEBRATING WOMEN ARTISTS IN JORDAN: REFRAMING GENDER ROLES AS RESISTANCE

This thesis focuses on women artists in the capital of Jordan, Amman, and particularly on their cultural practices as an expression of a creative agency. These women create independent spaces, cultural initiatives, public performances and original artworks that allow the reframing of gender roles in neoliberal patriarchal societies today. Beyond labeling the emergence of a new female activism, or femtivism, as feminist or revolutionary, I suggest reading it as the reconfiguration of a new wave of feminisms in Jordan, which engages with the visual arts, the contemporary cultural scene of Amman, the geography of the city and the political commitment, often in informal domains rather than in i…

Walking among the ghosts of colonialism. The haunting onomastic of Palermo

2022

This article aims to reflect on the ghosts of the city of Palermo through the experience conducted during Manifesta 12: the first Great Walking Ritual against Colonialism conceived by Wu Ming 2 and the collective Fare Ala. It is a matter of reconstructing walkscapes to bring out the urban silences that surround us: a path of apprehension capable of creating, metaphorically, a feeling of fear but, at the same time, of knowledge (Careri, 2006). This state of ambiguous apprehension is revealed in the streets of the city through toponymy, and the absence or presence of symbols and signs. This article – which follows the schematic tripartite division proposed by Vanolo (2018) – intends to reflec…

Between Wakes and Waves: An Anti-Geopolitical View of a Postcolonial Mediterranean Space

2020

The Mediterranean Sea is today a crucial space for the contemporary globalised world. This essay aims to explore the Mediterranean Sea as a geopolitical space of conflict and dominion through the lens of border and diasporic studies, and to look for those voices coming from “the colonial” as a process that put in crisis the Western hegemonic narration. In this postcolonial and diasporic sea, different powers, interests, dominions, but also voices, dissonances, trajectories, coexist and intersect. Following Paul Gilroy’s argument in The Black Atlantic, today the Mediterranean is both a reduced Middle Passage with the migrant’s routes, and a counter-archive of the contemporaneity. Indeed, the…

L'Isola Imperiale : Intellettuali e fascismo (1936-1946)

2017

Fatto l’impero, con la conquista fascista dell’Etiopia nel 1936, bisognava fare gli imperialisti. Per trascinare il paese in questa palingenesi miracolosa, il fascismo rinsaldava l’alleanza con la Chiesa, si emancipava dalla diarchia con la corona, concentrava su di sé il comando militare, cercava una nuova formula costituzionale dello Stato che gli permettesse di «durare», metteva su il progetto di un nuovo stato delle regioni, dava inizio al sistema giuridico della diseguaglianza razzista e antisemita, abbandonava quel che restava della legalità dello Statuto sostituendolo con il principio della volontà del duce, cercava di ritornare alle origini radicale dando l’assalto al latifondo e in…

Cancer Stem Cells: to be or not to be, is that the problem?

2014

Colon cancer stem cells: to be or not to be, is that the problem?

2014

Induction of efficient killing of human colon cancer initiating cells by gamma delta T lymphocytes: therapeutic applications

2012

Combining conventional chemotherapy and γδ T cell-based immunotherapy to target cancer-initiating cells.

2013

Colon cancer comprises a small population of cancer initiating stem cells (CIC) that is responsible for tumor maintenance and resistance to anti-cancer therapies, possibly allowing for tumor recapitulation once treatment stops. Combinations of immune-based therapies with chemotherapy and other anti-tumor agents may be of significant clinical benefit in the treatment of colon cancer. However, cellular immune-based therapies have not been experimented yet in the population of colon CICs. Here, we demonstrate that treatment with low concentrations of commonly used chemotherapeutic agents, 5-fluorouracyl and doxorubicin, sensitize colon CICs to Vγ9Vδ2 T cell cytotoxicity. Vγ9Vδ2 T cell cytotoxi…