Search results for "Colonialism"

Un chiodo per Mussolini (Mismār li-Mūssūlīnī)

2015

Ali Mustafa al-Misrati is one of the most eclectic and well-known contemporary Libyan writers. His wide and rich literary activity includes historical, political and social novels, essays and short stories, most of which reveals his civil commitment against colonialism in the Arab world and his support for Arab nationalism and unity of Libya. The short story that we have translated and presented here takes place in Libya under the Italian colonization. The plot arises from the Duce‟s visit to Tripoli in 1937 and tells the story of Far'as, an artisan who was asked to make an elegant Arabic horse-saddle to be given to the Duce as a special gift for his visit. But Far'as was a mujahid. His fat…

Al di qua e al di là della colonia: satira come opposizione al regime coloniale in un racconto di 'Ali Mustafà al-Misrati

2012

Italian scholars and Arabists have only recently started to pay attention towards Libya and this country's rich and fascinating literary production. Libyan writers are, in fact, still unknown to most people in Italy, where merely a few Italian translations of Libyan works and critical essays on Libyan literature have been published until now. Yet, Libya's contemporary literary scene features outstanding figures, such as the eclectic writer 'Ali Mustafà al-Misrati, whose novels, short stories and essays deal with significant historical, political and social themes. Starting from the analysis of one of author's tales focused on the Libyan opposition against Italian colonialism, this article p…

Species cohesion despite extreme inbreeding in a social spider.

2011

Colonial social spiders experience extreme inbreeding and highly restricted gene flow between colonies; processes that question the genetic cohesion of geographically separated populations and which could imply multiple origins from predecessors with limited gene flow. We analysed species cohesion and the potential for long-distance dispersal in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola by studying colony structure in eastern South Africa and the cohesion between this population and Namibian populations previously published. Data from both areas were (re)analysed for historic demographic parameters. Eastern South African S. dumicola were closely related to an east Namibian lineage, showing coh…

Postcolonial studies and translation theory

2009

La característica diferenciadora que poseen los enfoques postcoloniales en traducción radica en el hecho de que éstos analizan encuentros interculturales que se desarrollan en contextos marcados por desequilibrios en las relaciones de poder y es ahí donde se manifiestan tanto sus virtudes como sus defectos. Su mayor aportación ha sido sacar a la luz el papel del poder en la producción y recepción de traducciones. Sin embargo, se duda de que las teorías postcoloniales puedan aplicarse satisfactoriamente a otros intercambios interlingüísticos en los que las desigualdades en las relaciones de poder sean mínimas. Por otra parte, existe una tendencia generalizada a infravalorar las diferencias e…

Otherness and self in latvian theatre: Changes at the turn of the nineteenth century

2015

In the article, political and historical interpretations of the first play in Latvian, an adapted translation of Ludvig Holberg’s Jeppe of the Hill (1723, Latvian version 1790) are explored. Although the play has been often interpreted as a work of anti-alcohol propaganda, the article argues that the political motives of the play are no less important. Translated into Latvian during the time of the French revolution, the play mirrors the tense atmosphere of the revolutionary years and reflects changes in Latvian peasant identity. While translating, Baltic German pastor Alexander Johann Stender changed the play’s setting to the late eighteenth century Courland and added new details, emphasiz…

Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con una risposta dell’autore

2022

Commenti a “Bronislaw Malinowski, l’antropologia pratica, la politica e il colonialismo” di Antonino Colajanni, con contributi di Marco Bassi, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Antonio De Lauri, Frederico Delgado Rosa, Andrea E. Pia, Leonardo Piasere, Daniela Salvucci, Ivan Severi, Barbara Sorgoni, Jaro Stacul, Giuseppe Tateo, Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn, Pier Paolo Viazzo e una risposta dell’autore.

Unravelling diet composition and niche segregation of colonial waterbirds in a Mediterranean wetland using stable isotopes

2021

Altérités dans l'expatriation lointaine : dialogisme des imaginaires collectifs et des discours individuels

2015

In a postcolonial context, this research looks into the itineraries of French expatriates, from a former colonial empire, in Malaysia, a former British colony. The autobiographical discourses of the French expatriates, blogs, research writings and research interviews, are analyzed in terms of the articulation between individual experiences and collective representations, interrogating how experiencing alterity, as well as writing or speaking about it, participates in the construction of identities. The discourse analysis is dialogical and takes in consideration a larger field of discourses: the centuries‐long orientalist discourse as theorized by Bill Ashcroft, Tzvetan Todorov or Edward Sai…

Personāži ar hibrīdu identitātēm Amitava Goša un Salmana Rušdi romānos

2017

Šis maģistra darbs analizē personāžu hibrīdu identitātes un to savdabīgās balsis Salmana Rušdi un Amitava Goša romānos. Darba teorētiskā daļa ir balstīta uz krievu filozofa Mihaila Bahtina teorijām par heteroglosiju un polifoniju romānos, kā arī Edvarda Saida, Homi Babas, Roberta Janga un citu filozofu teorijām par koloniālismu, migrāciju, diasporām un hibriditāti. Darba praktiskā daļa izmeklē personāžu hibrīdu identitātes Salmana Rušdi un Amitava Goša romānos – “Magoņu jūra”, “Pusnakts bērni”, “Zeme zem viņas kājām” un “Maura pēdējā nopūta”. Pētījums pierāda, ka Amitavs Gošs un Salmans Rušdi meistarīgi iekļauj hibriditāti savos romānos, katram personāžam piešķirot specifisku un unikālu ide…

International student mobility in Southern-Latin Europe: beyond the EU logics, towards a new space

2018

This paper discusses international student mobility (ISM) in Southern-Latin Europe, specifically Italy, Portugal, and Spain, analysing the inflow of international students as reflected in the UNESCO, OECD and European Commission databases. Only recently Italy, Portugal and Spain, as latecomers, have become more actively involved in ISM dynamics. This trend has been a response to EU pressures to internationalization, instrumented through the consolidation of the Bologna process and the need to build a common space of higher education. The analysis shows that at the intra-European level Italy, Portugal and Spain share similar ISM patterns; however, in the global context other logics shape ISM…