Search results for "identity"

The Milk of Almonds:Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture

2003

Exploring Identities. Fundamentals in Human Science

2016

The work provides students with a course in the social sector at the level B1 in line with the European framework.

L’attesa come condizione esistenziale: SAID Landschaften einer fernen Mutter, 2001 e Marjane Satrapi Persepolis, 2007

2018

In this paper the author intends to analyze the concept of ‘waiting time’ that, in a different way, also seen the substantial artistic diversity, is present in the film Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, 2007, based on the namesake graphic novel written by the French-Iranian director in 2000, and in the novel Landschaften einer fernen Mutter written by the German-Iranian author SAID, 2001. The analysis that is conducted here wants to investigate how both, in the film and in the literary work, the ‘waiting time’ for the exile takes on totally personal connotations, becoming also not only part of the life of Satrapi and SAID, but above all a state of mind.

Sudabeh Mohafez e Yoko Tawada: due differenti processi di (ri)costruzione identitaria

2019

Yoko Tawada is a famous German-Japanese author she lives since 1982 in Germany, where she writes in Japanese and German. Sudabeh Mohafez is a German-Iranian author that she lives since 1979 in Germany and she writes only in German. This essay examines how Tawada and Mohafez approach the native country in their works. The focus of this study intends to show what different identity processes have each writers and how they are described in Akzentfrei, 2016 of Tawada and Wüstenhimmel Sternenland, 2004 of Mohafez.

Die vielgestaltige Wassermetaphorik bei Yoko Tawada

2018

The famous German-Japanese author Yoko Tawada lives since 1982 in Germany, where she writes in Japanese and German. This essay examines the multiform metaphor of water in the works of the writer. Furthermore, the study explores the apparently close relations between water, with its continuous changes, and the existence of a fixed identity. This paper also questions how water (a metaphor for identity) in many passages of the selected texts, is sought and rejected but also feared, desired and modified by the protagonists.

Familiarity and otherness in late-Ottoman travel accounts in Palestine.

2018

Apart from the more common pilgrimage reports, or rihla higaziyya, the rihla maqdisiyya (journey to the Palestinian territories) definitely forms a distinct typology of account, both from a historical and a literary point of view. The territories of Palestine, which are traditionally considered as a part of the wider unit of Bilad al-Sham in the perspective of Arab historians and geographers, represent a peculiar pole of attraction for Arab travellers throughout the centuries, due to the significant presence of holy places and the special regard accorded to the city of Jerusalem as early as the Islamic conquest of the area. In the late-Ottoman period (mid-19th - 20th century), Palestine exp…

Identity and Self-Representation in al-Hajari's Travel Account

2013

This study focuses on some important aspects concerning the contacts between the Arab-Islamic World and Western Europe in the Ottoman period and, more specifically, the nature and typology of relationships between al-Maġrib al-aqṣā’ and Europe in the 17th century, with particular attention to the modalities of cultural exchanges and the role of the ‘ulamā’ in the process of transmission of knowledge. The choice of considering Travel Accounts or Riḥlāt as historical sources of this study is motivated by the intention of analysing the issue “from within”, according to a methodological approach that privileges the philological-comparative analysis. Within the large framework of this genre, the…

Spazio della memoria, memoria dello spazio nel racconto breve kuwaitiano: Yasquṭ al-maṭar… tamūt al-amīrah di Munā al-Šammarī

2023

Munā al-Šammarī is a Kuwaiti short story writer, novelist, screenwriter and journalist born in Kuwait in 1966. Her first collection of stories, entitled Yasquṭ al-maṭar… tamūt al-amīrah (The rain falls… the princess dies) and published in 2012 describes the anxieties and worries of the inhabitants of Fahaheel (Faḥīḥīl), the small town located in southern Kuwait, where the writer was born and lived her childhood and adolescence and forged her identity. In the thirteen short stories that make up the collection, space – which is a ‘space of memory’ – represents not merely a geographical framework but rather the real object of narration. Through the constant dialogue between ‘space of memory’ a…

Dialettica e trasformazione in Th. W. Adorno

2020

La dialettica può svolgere un’effettiva funzione critico-conoscitiva in quanto, pur irretita nelle maglie del pensare identico, di esso è capace di ridisegnare la struttura concettuale, rendendola permeabile a quel che le sue rigide procedure classificatorie tendono inevitabilmente ad opprimere e occultare. Se la dialettica non è logica manifestativa del vero, se anzi rivela una compromissione inevitabile con il sapere illusorio prodotto dal pensiero identificante, del pensiero identificante rappresenta però l’unica chance di trasformazione Dialectics can play an effective critical-cognitive function in that, although caught in the mesh of «identity thinking», it is capable of redesigning t…

Persona, comunità, strategie identitarie

2019

The volume presents the multidisciplinary approach to the topics of identity, person and community pursued in the 2019 research project at Department of Humanities of Palermo University