Search results for "colonial"

Das Unheimliche (Postcolonialisme et reconfiguration à l'extrême gauche). Autour d'une configuration, à partir de : Race et Capitalisme, Les Cahiers …

2013

International audience; Pourquoi ce titre, emprunté à Sigmund Freud1, pourquoi à propos d'une livraison pour Syllepse d'un numéro des Cahiers de l'émancipation ? Le propos n'est pas une lecture pathologique, mais davantage symptomale, soit une façon – à la manière assumée d'un usage « sauvage » du lexique psychanalytique tel que pratiquée naguère par l'histoire du temps présent – de questionner une part de l'agency 2 de l'extrême gauche française contemporaine, entre stratégie(s) académique(s), reconfiguration(s) politique(s) autour des questions du postcolonialisme, du marxisme et de son efficace politique sur la scène française. Cette livraison offre un dossier « Race et capitalisme » coo…

Colonies

2015

The entry discusses David Ricardo's three main analytical arguments related to the colonial issue: i) colonies as a source of new fertile land and therefore as a viable solution to the problem of decreasing returns on domestic land; ii) colonies as possible outlet markets able to absorb domestic excess supply; and, finally, iii) the effects of trade restrictions between a colony and its mother country.

Decolonial Thinking and Refugees’ Stories. The Queens of Syria Documentary (2014)

2019

As an important stimulus for the international mushrooming of artistic creativity in public spaces, counter narratives by displaced people are contributing to the reframing of the political and sociolinguistic contemporary framework, where migrant identities are fighting to gain a voice. A counter wave of audiovisual productions based on aesthetic discourse has emerged within territories that seem to be losing their humanity with respect to migration issues, and seem to publicly reinforce forms of spectacularisation. Against a backdrop of international political conflict, where migrants and dispossessed refugees are nameless and cannot speak, visual and performative arts have taken on a dec…

LA DEMOCRAZIA INDIANA. UNA CREAZIONE TRANSCULTURALE

2008

Nel 2007 l’India democratica ha compiuto 60 anni e, avendo raggiunto la stimabile quota di un miliardo e centomilioni di abitanti, si dichiara con orgoglio la più grande democrazia del mondo. Ma quanto è legittimo tale orgoglio? Questa domanda potrebbe interpretarsi in due modi: 1. quanto è democratica la democrazia indiana? Oppure 2. quanto è indiana la democrazia indiana? Cercherò – nella prima parte di questo scritto – di rispondere alla prima domanda introducendo brevemente la storia e l’attualità politica dell’India. Nella parte successiva argomenterò il secondo interrogativo, volendo dimostrare che esso è mal posto e suggerendo un diverso approccio per comprendere le creazioni transcu…

“Black Italia. Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa”

2009

Through the centuries, historical and fictional characters of African descent have been an integral part of Italian culture at large – from Hannibal to Othello. Yet their presence, in history as much as in the arts, has often been marginalized, or considered episodic, if not entirely overlooked by Italy’s dominant discourse. The recent arrival of a plethora of migrants from the four corners of the world, many of whom from African countries, has urged Italians to recuperate their African past as an essential, and often problematic, component of their national identity. Yet historical sources appear fragmentary and often interpolated. How to re-compose the neglected African Italian heritage? …

"Perle per il mondo: origine ed evoluzione della diaspora postcoloniale"

2010

Asimmetrie di genere e di razza in The Grass is Singing di Doris Lessing

2011

Published in the early 1950s, The Grass is Singing (1950), the first work by Doris Lessing (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007), through the deconstruction of certain normative characters traditionally attributed to Englishness, anticipates in its narrative plot some of those founding issues that, in the decades to come, would be explored both by the theoretical-critical writings of Second Wave Feminism and within that complex study field which became known over the Seventies, such as (post-) colonial studies. In the novel, the body of the white colonial woman living in the colonies is depicted as the site of opposite tensions and the traditional homogeneity of the group…

The White Woman’s Haunted Body in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing

2012

Underpinned by an interpretative grid where the analytic categories of gender and race are interwoven, the paper contends that Doris Lessing’s first novel, The Grass Is Singing (1950), unveils and dismantles culturally-constructed inscriptions of the white female body as elaborated within the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British colonial discourses and largely reproduced at folk level. Exploring Lessing’s robust delineation of the entanglements of gendered sexuality and race-biased social constraints as active in the colonial context, the paper also suggests that the novel problematizes and recasts traditional British identity configurations from an authorial perspective which po…

Rūdolfs Blaumanis, the Dreyfus Affair and the Anglo-Boer War: Colonial difference and identity construction infin-de-siècleLatvian society

2017

This article offers an insight into the social and cultural scene in Latvia at the end of the nineteenth century. The territory of this Baltic state was then still part of the Russian Empire, divided among several of its provinces. However, this was also a period when the cultural aspirations of the rising Latvian middle class were represented by the gradual attempts to raise the self-esteem of the entire local population. The article focuses on the role that Latvian writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) played in encouraging Latvians to understand themselves as a self-confident people during the fin-de-siècle period. The first part examines articles published by Blaumanis in the Latvian pre…

Droit romain et Code Noir. Quelques réflexions a posteriori

2015

In Roman times, slavery is domestic, before conquests transformed its nature. Colonial slavery is an economic exploitation based on slave trade. How do the administrators apprehend the slave’s legal status ? Does the Code noir follow local rules or Roman precedents to supervise practice, according to some expected effects on the settlers’s property ? If Roman law serves as a matrix, is it as a simple recovery or as an indirect influence ? The spirit of antique solutions is present, but it is not essential for the legal definition of "Negros". The Roman law provides a conceptual tool to understand a posteriori the inner wheels of a specific status, at the turning point between property right…