Search results for "Colonial"
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Razzismi, discriminazioni e confinamenti
2013
"Rappresentazioni del corpo del colonizzato, riletture postcoloniali a confronto", Barbara Creed and Jeanette Hoorn (eds.), Body Trade, New York, Rou…
2003
Un'indagine interdisciplinare sulle raffigurazioni del corpo del colonizzato e del prigioniero, nel contesto del colonialismo europeo, in Australia e nel Pacifico, corre sul filo di questa raccolta di saggi, opera di autori di varie nazionalità e diversa formazione. I temi centrali di Body Trade, la mercificazione del corpo dell'Altro e le rappresentazioni del colonizzato, sono dibattuti con l'intento di riesaminare i miti della civiltà occidentale e del cannibalismo, attraverso l'analisi di un vasto repertorio di pratiche coloniali, prese a soggetto di romanzi, riviste, fotografie e film, tutte opere pubblicate lungo un arco temporale che si snoda dal Settecento ai giorni nostri.
Transverstites re-existences: A counterhistory from the visual difference in Peru
2018
El vínculo entre naturaleza y deshumanización es un discurso moderno colonial de género que mantiene su vigencia mediante la basurización simbólica y concreta de quienes son vistos como inferiores, antinaturales y hasta como animales, convertidos en un desecho de la sociedad. Una forma de visualizar al otro como elemento sobrante del sistema simbólico. En este sentido, maniobrar en el campo de la visualidad travesti, sus convenciones y estereotipos, se convierte en una práctica de resistencia en tanto que se enfrenta al régimen escópico eurocéntrico disciplinante, astutamente camuflado. Pero, igualmente, de re-existencia, al proponer la co-presencia visual de la diferencia, y por ende, la e…
La eterna frontera del sur. Cartografía de los encuentros y desencuentros entre España y Marruecos
2005
El límite entre España y Marruecos es más que una frontera política entre dos Estados. Es el punto de contacto entre dos mundos que se han acercado y enfrentado a lo largo de la historia. Los dos países han sido testigos del peso de ese con-texto cultural y se han visto condicionados por su particular situación geográfica, tejiendo también sus propias relaciones como vecinos. Esa compleja vecindad entre España y Marruecos no puede ser entendida sin tener en cuenta el tipo de con-tactos y visiones construidos hasta hoy mismo. (A)
"This is Ghanaian territory!": Land conflicts on a West African border
2003
Most African borders have remained permeable, not least because the colonial and postcolonial states have lacked the necessary resources to enforce them more rigidly, "top-down." In this article, I analyze the ways in which an African border has been dealt with "from below," partly ignored or subverted and partly appropriated. The border between Ghana and Burkina Faso, drawn up in 1898, was soon adopted by the borderlanders as a political resource, capable of shielding them from colonial tax and forced-labor requirements. Local networks of kinship and strategies of land use, on the other hand, usually ignored the border. Although the border cut through many earth-shrine areas, the indigenou…
Richard Francis Burton. Victorian Explorer and Translator
2012
This volume offers a critical insight into the life and work of the controversial Victorian explorer and translator Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). Analysis focuses on his travel accounts and erotic translations, which both re-elaborated and challenged dominant Victorian discourses on race, gender and sexuality, generating controversies in the fields of anthropology, sexology and medicine. The premise of the study is that Burton entertained an ambiguous relationship with the colonial institutions: on the one hand, he pursued the colonial project, while on the other, he was an irreverent outsider who clashed with the imperial authorities. As this investigation reveals, he defied British …
The Foreign Female Body as a Symbolic Resource in Marina Warner's "Queen of Sheba"
2008
Marina Warner contaminates different versions of the Queen of Sheba “story” in which the Queen is specifically “a queen of the South” and in which her otherness is impressed on her dark/black body. Warner juxtaposes various narratives with different orders of corporeal readings that can be visibly condensed in the image of the queen as she crosses a (Mediterranean) border/watercourse raising her dress and showing her legs. This image dominates the exotic versions that have been reworked by Warner even within colonial models. Warner shows how the queen’s body becomes a symbolic resource for an ideological conflict that changes perspectives according to the context but that is always fought o…
Les topologies imaginaires de Lauren Beukes dans Moxyland (2008) et The Shining Girls (2013)
2019
International audience; This article examines two novels published by South African writer Lauren Beukes. More specifically, it explores the way in which the two cities in which the novels are set blur a number of boundaries, thus creating paradoxical, and intermedial, topologies.
Fogli di anglistica, I (1-2 n.s.), 2007, pp. 210
2008
Il primo numero della nuova serie della rivista specialistica Fogli di anglistica, qui recensito, è principalmente dedicato alla letteratura di viaggio. La seconda delle due sezioni in cui il volume è suddiviso è dedicata poi, in particolare, al viaggio in Sicilia.