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La scelta del trauma. Eraldo Affinati negli anni '90

2017

The article reads the short stories and novels by the Italian writer Eraldo Affinati in the 1990s, with special regard to a twofold aspect: the cultural appropriation of a post-war traumatic experience by an author born in 1956, which lead to the strive to re-invent one's own past in an eventless present. Affinati's ethical approach to fiction is deeply questioned in the last part of the essay

Introduzione dei curatori al fascicolo "Luca Rastello, scrittore"

2022

Introduction to the monographic journal issue "Luca Rastello, scrittore", edited by the authors of the introduction

Queer Sexualities, Queer Spaces: Gender and Performance in Sarah Waters' "Tipping the Velvet"

2011

Analysing Revolution-like Processes in North Africa: A Historical Perspective of the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s

2021

The recent Arab Spring (which started in 2010 and is still going on) has been considered the beginning of a transition process for some Arab countries and in particular North African countries. In the last years a bulimic production of books and articles have investigated the Arab Spring by mainly focusing on events from the 2011 onwards and/ or proposing a single narrow-minded perspective. A broader historical comparative approach is needed for investigating and underlining both similarities and differences among the different target countries and their revolutionary and/or revolutionary-like events/processes, by also contributing (and this is the aim of this article) to shed light on “und…

Mithly: l'amore che osa dire il suo nome

2012

This paper aims at casting light on the first Arab-language gay magazine from Morocco and the Arab World. “Mithly”, which in Arabic has the double meaning of “homo” and “like me”, appeared for the first time on the web and in print (200 copies) in Rabat on April 1st 2010. The first issue, composed of fifteen pages (fourteen in Arabic and one in French), contains articles on different themes: reflections on politics, life and love, personal experiences and a short story, whose integral Italian translation is offered in Appendix.

La tentazione autoritaria. L'Itala liberale e il governo dei migliori

2012

In this essay argues that the Italy of the end of the millennium and the sunset of the nineteenth century were united by an authoritarian temptation. A shiny, modern and reactionary political project of the Government of the best that you can find in Southern Italy, and focus on the debate, his lab and in the great war his testbed. A generation of great nationalist intellectuals (and meridionalisti) began looking for an alternative political model to the liberal-democrat, much more suitable, according to them, the transformations that modernity had started in Italy and Europe.

The Collapsing World Landscape : A Conversation with Artist Shang Yang

2017

Taking landscape as the source of his work; Chinese artist Shang Yang’s real interest is to express his concern about the relationship between humans and the environment. Shang Yang has anchored his art to China’s environmental problems since the early 1990s. He has depicted the collapse of the landscape, and the pathology of the declining environments in contemporary China. As a leading artist in the country, his art plays an important role in Chinese contemporary art history. In 2013, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of AAC (Award of Art China).

Shape-Shifting Tales. Michèle Roberts's Monstrous Women

2010

The book provides an analysis of the representation of women’s bodies and their monstrous metamorphoses in selected short stories by contemporary English writer Michèle Roberts. The author explores the relationship between traditional fairy tales such as the Grimm Brothers’ and Charles Perrault’s, the lives of female saints and Roberts’s counter-narratives, focussing on the analysis of images of sublimed fleshliness and of acts of monstrous violence on the body. The book takes into account relevant Women’s Studies criticism regarding the mother-daughter relationship, as Roberts’s stories question the role of mother figures in traditional fairy tales and hagiography and at the same time rewo…

Shu Ting

2021

Voce "Shu Ting" del Dictionary of Literary Biography. Chinese Poets Since 1949 The dictionary entry is about the contemporary Chinese poetess Shu Ting.

Foreign (In)Direct Investment in Chinese Contemporary Art Game: The Case Studies of Uli Sigg, Guy Ullens and beyond, 1989-2013

2021

The boom in Chinese contemporary art is the result of China’s opening to foreign investment and private entrepreneurship in 1978, and the significant contribution by the transnational art enterprises of long-term patron-investor-collectors, such as Uli Sigg and Guy Ullens, between approximately 1989 and 2013. Through the opportunity offered by the gap between the private market mechanism and national heritage process for the “art game”, these investors used a variation of the controversial “Saatchi model” to generate high ROI. A further effect has been to bring CCA onto the global stage and complete the ecosystem of the art industry, building a foundation for the art economy of post-Mao Chi…