Search results for "Postcolonialism"
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Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings
2010
In the contemporary world, the figure of the migrant, moving across spaces, cultures and languages, has acquired unprecedented centrality. Migrants have transformed the ways of representing, and narrating, the transnational world in which they live, responding in new fashions to one of the oldest impulses of men and women of every place and time: the impulse to tell stories. By engaging with notions of diaspora, postcoloniality, nomadism, translation, exile and migration, the study moves across the Anglophone and Italophone spectra offering a compelling definition of migrant literature at the turn of the millennium. Chapters on Cristina Garcia, Nuruddin Farah, Caryl Phillips and Ubax Cristi…
Historic constructions of the early multinational: on power, politics and culture in Pan Am narratives
2018
This paper examines how Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) - an early incarnation of a multinational enterprise (MNE) - developed its image as an international company. In particular, we examine how the company developed and managed potentially conflicting narratives, including the modernising US company and the airline of 'the Americas' (specifically South America); the carrier of US national interests and the politically neutral actor serving to unify cultures; the purveyor of exotic experiences and the pioneer of modernism. Through a focus on organisational narratives, we reveal the powerful influence of such story telling (through design and serendipity) on images of the peoples and co…
Said 'nonostante Said'. Il dibattito sull''orientalism in one country' e i processi letterari di orientalizzazione del Mezzogiorno italiano
2014
Nell'ambito dei dibattiti sull'orientalismo italiano, esiste un particolare segmento rivolto all'analisi delle dinamiche di costruzione della nazione (nation building) e, dunque, all'identificazione delle modalità di creazione di un oriente interno. Più nello specifico, nel peculiare percorso italiano di acquisizione dell'indipendenza nazionale (nationhood) alcuni studiosi provenienti da differenti ambiti disciplinari hanno provato a riconoscere i processi attraverso i quali le regioni meridionali d'Italia hanno assunto connotati sempre meno storicamente e geograficamente determinati, fino a mutarsi nella regione orientalizzata dell'immaginario europeo che prende il nome di Mezzogiorno. Tal…
?Un carácter verdaderamente mexicano? : ?modelos de mundo?, historiografía y poscolonialismo en El Álbum mexicano (1849)
2020
Este artículo analiza desde los parámetros teóricos y metodológicos de la críticacomo sabotaje El Álbum mexicano (1849), periódico ilustrado del siglo xix, que actuó como"sistema modelizante" para crear un relato de la nueva nación mexicana. Escritos geográficos,biografías, literatura, entre otros géneros, operaron en una misma dirección ideológica paradiseñar un mismo "modelo de mundo" inspirado en los ideales de la burguesía criolla.Asimismo, se establece un diálogo entre la crítica como sabotaje y el poscolonialismo con elque esta teoría dialoga de manera directa. Considering the theoretical and methodological parameters of criticism as sabotage, this article analyzes El Álbum mexicano (…
Latvian Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism, and World Literature
2020
The aim of this chapter is to discuss the complexity of the self-consciousness of the inhabitants of contemporary Latvia from a postcolonial perspective. This approach demonstrates how the experience of a small nation helps to reveal the common roots of Europe and to build both theoretical and practical bridges between different societies and their members. It also contextualizes the relation of so-called small literatures to the global literary field. The highly acclaimed novel of contemporary Latvian author, Inga Ābele, Klūgu mūks (2014), about the life and work of the Catholic priest and politician Francis Trasuns, provides the focus of attention and serves as the background for a case s…
Sul far del giorno
2016
Edizione critica dell'autobiografia del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura Wole Soyinka, corredata di Prefazione e Note della curatrice, che ne è anche la traduttrice, di una cronologia storica, di mappe geopolitiche della Nigeria dall'indipendenza, e di un apparato fotografico pubblicato in Italia in anteprima mondiale. Soyinka, classe 1934, drammaturgo, poeta, saggista, romanziere e attivista politico è stato il primo autore africano a essere insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura. In questo avvincente memoir, racconta le proprie vicende di artista, intellettuale e attivista militante nella sua Nigeria e nel palcoscenico del mondo, in cui da sempre porta le voci dell'Africa. Nel lingu…
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Language(s) of African Literature
2016
One of the most fundamental problems newly emerged national literatures and writers in Africa have had to face in the post-colonial era has been to decide in which language to write in order to appeal to both the native readers in their recently independent countries and to large (international) publishing houses that would foster the sales of their books overseas. An unequivocal decision was difficult to make since, on the one hand, in majority, they wanted to be faithful to family vernacular traditions but, on the other, they wished to disseminate their message to a broader audience in the Western world. This paper, then, attempts to uncover the ideas contained in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Deco…
Haunted Cartographies: toward a postcolonial gyne-a-logy of mapmaking
2016
Recalling Jardine’s definition of ‘gynesis’ (1985) which, etymologically, means ‘woman-process’ as the ‘putting into discourse of “woman”’ and strategically combining it with the Foucauldian sense of genealogy (1979), the aim of this paper is to re-vision and re-envision through the lens of feminist and postcolonial critical theory and visual arts the problematics inherent to what has been named the ‘cartographic reason’ (Farinelli, 2009). As Adrienne Rich once proposed for her writing, by revision I mean the theoretical act ‘of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction’ (1972: 18). The new critical direction I detrimentally encourage is …
Deconstructing Gendered and Colonial Violence in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth-Century: Domestic Traumas in Neo-Victorianism on Screen
2023
En esta tesis, examinamos el colapso del concepto idealizado de familia nuclear en las sociedades occidentales a través de la (mala) representación de los traumas de género y coloniales en el neovictorianismo audiovisual. Para ello, analizamos cuatro textos audiovisuales neovictorianos producidos en la última década: Crimson Peak (2015) de Guillermo del Toro, Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), Taboo (2017-presente) y Carnival Row (2019-presente) a través del marco teórico de los estudios de trauma. Nuestras hipótesis de partida son (1) estos textos audiovisuales neovictorianos aparentemente proporcionan una representación feminista de los traumas de género dentro de los confines de la familia nucl…
MAPS OUT OF PLACE: DISPLACING CARTOGRAPHY IN THE REALM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
2015
As Brian Harley wrote: “maps are too important to be left to cartographers alone” (2001: 239). Not for nothing maps have played a pivotal role as weapons of imperialism, as discursive formations disciplining the link between academic practice and political power and acting as social hieroglyphics in the words of Marx. The aim of this paper is plotting a course towards a divergent use of map-making as creative process and as a set of tactics to destabilize, challenge and re-imagine geographical mapping practices, moving beyond\behind their direct link with power, war and the male Western “episteme”. What is at stake in this provisional critical route is to understand what function and dysfun…