Search results for "Colonial Literature"
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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…
Scrivere fra le due guerre: riflessi socio-letterari del colonialismo italiano
2017
The Italian colonial cravings, born after the end of Risorgimento, continued until the end of the Great War, dragging the country into a series of conquering wars, culminating in that of Libya. The growth of nationalist ideology, fueling those cravings, found nourishment in the fascist regime. The expansive drives within an ideology aimed to the pride of a nation and the skillful manipulation of public opinion, obtained by the organization of a powerful propaganda machine, convinced the Italians that even the Kingdom of Italy had the right to equip itself, like other European countries, with a colonial empire. Intellectuals and writers - with few exceptions - have never left, in the years 1…
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.
Postcolonial Intersections: Transnational Women Voices from Minor Italy
2017
The rising corpus of Italian postcolonial literature, mainly by women writers originally from the Horn of Africa, is urging Italian letters to engage with other contemporary transnational productions, thus challenging the notion of national canons and vertical power relations, in favor of a writing seeking for horizontal, minor connections unmediated by the center, as suggested by Francoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, whose work on Minor Transnationalism draws from Deleuze & Guattari and Edouard Glissant. As a case of point, the article offers a reflection on Ubax Cristina Ali Farah's narratives and their use of language.
"Pearls in Motion" -- Prefazione al romanzo di Cristina Ali Farah, Little Mother (titolo originale: Madre piccola), Bloomington, Indiana University P…
2011
La conquista è un sostantivo femminile. Donne e avventura coloniale dell'Italia liberale del Corno d'Africa
2016
Tra gli aspetti maggiormente e volutamente rimossi della nostra avventura coloniale, c’è quello che riguarda il coinvolgimento e il ruolo delle donne nell’avventura coloniale nonché l’atteggiamento adottato dagli Italiani (di entrambi i sessi) nei confronti delle donne colonizzate. Se le donne italiane dapprima escluse furono, in un secondo momento, invitate ad esportare oltremare i valori della famiglia, propaganda di Stato, fotografia, canzoni, pubblicità, realizzazioni filmiche, letteratura e pretesi discorsi scientifici hanno veicolato, dal canto loro, dapprima una retorica di genere che ha mercificato la donna indigena come preda sessuale, e, in un secondo momento, l’ha demonizzata rov…
“Something Hungry and Wild is Still Calling”: Post-Apartheid Gothic
2012
International audience; The postcolonial Gothic is now a mode widely covered by literary criticism, but South Africa has often been left out of investigations. This paper argues that only now that apartheid has ended can writers and critics explore how the Gothic manifests itself in South African literature. Showing possible connections between the postcolonial Gothic and recent South African fiction, it seeks to define a new category that can help define the contours of the literary field in South Africa: post-apartheid Gothic.
Origins, Journey, and Home: The Issue of Identity in the Work of Three Diasporic “African-Indian” Women Writers
2014
This chapter considers the issue of identity in postcolonial literature. It challenges the representations of center/metropolis and margin/periphery as a one-to-one link. The three writers considered here are located within a context of intra-colonial displacements from India. Ananda Devi, Natacha Appanah, and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown offer a blurred vision of identity, and share some important common points: the three of them define the identity as fluid and multiple. The identities they speak about are the results of a personal negotiation with numerous and diversified external stimuli. Finally, they show a similar relationship with the themes of the origins, journey, and “home”.
Wole Soyinka: Due Poesie
2008
Durante l'undicesima edizione del Festivaletteratura di Mantova, nel settembre 2007, Wole Soyinka, insieme alla studiosa e traduttrice Alessandra Di Maio, ha ripercorso la sua carriera poetica, spiegandone svolte e sviluppi. In questa sede si riportano due delle sue poesie più note in traduzione -- "Conversazione telefonica" e "I figli di questa terra" -- che coprono idealmente l'arco della sua produzione poetica, dalla gioventù all'eta matura.
"Homo Sacer" figūra Nadīnes Gordimeras romānā "Pikaps" un Kiranas Desaji romānā "Mantotā nolemtība"
2020
Dotais maģistra darbs atspoguļo analītisku imigranta tēla lasījumu, kā Džordžo Agambena koncepcijas "homo sacer" iemiesojumu, mūsdienu postkoloniālajā literatūrā. Šajā darbā tika analizēti divi romāni: Nadīnes Gordimeras “Pikaps” (2001) un Kiranas Desaji “Mantotā nolemtība” (2007). Darbā tika pielietota Džordžo Agambena (1998) politiskā teorija. Pētījums tika veikts ar mērķi interpretēt "homo sacer" figūras attēlojumu izvēlētajos romānos, izmantojot salīdzinošo literāro pieeju. Romānu interpretatīvo lasījumu manāmi pastiprināja tādi postkoloniālo literāro studiju metožu veidi kā starpdisciplinaritāte un kontekstualitāte. Pētnieciskā darba rezultāti attēlo imigrantu tēlus, kas tiek reducēti …