Journal Issues by Nicoletta Pireddu
_The European Legacy. Towards New Paradigms_ 27 (7-8), 2022
As one of the foremost European writers and intellectuals of our time, Claudio Magris has consist... more As one of the foremost European writers and intellectuals of our time, Claudio Magris has consistently kept Europe at the center of his work. In addition to numerous volumes of literary criticism spanning over four decades, Italian translations of German masterpieces, and contributions to European journals and public debates, Magris has gained international recognition for his literary works—among them, the award-winning Danube (1989) and Microcosms (1999), Blindly (2008), Blameless (2017), and his most recent Tempo curvo a Krems (2019).
This special issue of _The European Legacy_ aims to connect Magris's thought and poetics to the broader European discourse from a variety of methodological, cultural, and comparative perspectives. We explore the complexities of the European idea in and through Claudio Magris’s oeuvre, with a particular focus on the role of literature and the humanities as creative and critical tools to engage with community building and human values.
Parallax 28 (1), 2022
How does the coexistence of different linguistic codes redefine speakers’ collective allegiances?... more How does the coexistence of different linguistic codes redefine speakers’ collective allegiances? How do literary and aesthetic representations symbolise the multiple identification mechanisms enabled by linguistic diversity and what do they entail for our understanding of community formation outside the frame of nationhood, which historically has relied upon geopolitical and linguistic delimitation?
The essays in this special issue engage with a wide range of geographies and localities, art works, and historical periods, tracing continuously how these works, in their attention to language(s), imagine issues of belonging, identity, and living together. The various contributors pursue both a critique and an elaboration of Anderson’s work from the perspective of literary, artistic, and societal multilingualism. Focusing on non-conventional corpora, each of them interrogates the representation of communities by paying attention to multilingualism, matters of migration and integration, and peripheral identities.
The essays look at novels, travelogues, poetry, video art, and oral history from all around the world, and centrally investigate the legacies of enforced monolingualism and language standardisation in different continents and epochs. In the process, they show the importance of bringing marginalised voices into mainstream discussions on identity and belonging to undermine the nation-state’s ideological apparatus in the twinned issues of the multilingual imagination of community and the imagination of multilingual community.
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Journal Issues by Nicoletta Pireddu
This special issue of _The European Legacy_ aims to connect Magris's thought and poetics to the broader European discourse from a variety of methodological, cultural, and comparative perspectives. We explore the complexities of the European idea in and through Claudio Magris’s oeuvre, with a particular focus on the role of literature and the humanities as creative and critical tools to engage with community building and human values.
The essays in this special issue engage with a wide range of geographies and localities, art works, and historical periods, tracing continuously how these works, in their attention to language(s), imagine issues of belonging, identity, and living together. The various contributors pursue both a critique and an elaboration of Anderson’s work from the perspective of literary, artistic, and societal multilingualism. Focusing on non-conventional corpora, each of them interrogates the representation of communities by paying attention to multilingualism, matters of migration and integration, and peripheral identities.
The essays look at novels, travelogues, poetry, video art, and oral history from all around the world, and centrally investigate the legacies of enforced monolingualism and language standardisation in different continents and epochs. In the process, they show the importance of bringing marginalised voices into mainstream discussions on identity and belonging to undermine the nation-state’s ideological apparatus in the twinned issues of the multilingual imagination of community and the imagination of multilingual community.