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Filiations textuelles, nationales et culturelles : les genres littéraires en contexte postcolonial
2018
À partir de l’Inde
2016
Teaching The Buddha of Suburbia
2020
National audience
Rifugiati: Voci della diaspora somala
2003
Acclaimed Somali writer Nuruddin Farah's non-fiction text is based upon a number of interviews to Somali refugees in four European nations historically close to his homeland - Italy, England, Sweden, Switzerland. Their voices intertwine, framed by that of the exile writer, providing a reconstruction of Somalia as a postcolonial nation first and a civil-war ridden failed state later.
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…
L’espace dans Der einzige Ort de Thomas Stangl : pour une circulation des modèles culturels et identitaires ?
2016
International audience; Dans son roman Der einzige Ort (2004), l’écrivain autrichien contemporain Thomas Stangl s’attache aux dichotomies de « l’ici et de l’ailleurs » et du « soi et de l’Autre » dans une perspective déconstructiviste et postcoloniale.L’espace en tant que motif littéraire et que catégorie poétologique y occupe une place centrale car il permet à l’auteur d’esquisser un bouleversement identitaire qui trouve sa source dans de nouvelles interactions entre le sujet et ce qui lui est à l’origine étranger.Parallèlement, Stangl fait de l’acte narratif une topographie complexe et ouverte sur l’Ailleurs.
Yinka Shonibare MBE and sartorial comedy: costuming as subversive practice
2016
International audience
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…
For a History of Anthropology in the Plural
2023
What are the reasons behind the “scientific” positioning that anthropology had adopted since its origins up to a few decades ago? They were certainly cognitive reasons, but they were intertwined with political concerns, ideological frameworks and cultural references. The urge to gain academic legitimacy, reliance on “Western-centric” perspectives and the aspiration to build broad, universal knowledge all played a role. Another significant role was played by its involvement in the project and the projection of colonial supremacy. These are all implicit factors that started to take on an increasingly deliberate problematic form, and finally culminated in the “crisis of representation”, fallin…