Are we being saturated with "inconsequential memoir"? That question was posed in the latest edition of The Lifted Brow (TLB), a print/online journal of new Australian and international (think US) writing and opinion that's been around... more
This paper examines how Italian literature reimagines female leadership by focusing on characters whose authority does not stem from social status or rhetorical skill, but from their ability to endure trauma, offer emotional support,... more
Lila og Elena, hovedpersonerne i Elena Ferrantes romanvaerk, udmaerker sig ved deres intellekt og boglige evner. Begge drømmer de om at slippe vaek fra kvarteret og fattigdommen. NAPOLI. FOTO: MARIO MANCUSO a Elena Ferrantes debutroman,... more
Ovaj tekst analizira roman Genijalna prijateljica Elene Ferante kroz paralelu između napuljskog kvarta i društvenog konteksta Bosne i Hercegovine. U fokusu je univerzalno iskustvo odrastanja djevojčica i mladih žena u okvirima nasilja,... more
This essay makes Louisa May Alcott’s multifaceted work into a pretext for an encounter between feminist and queer theory-oriented literary analysis. Alcott’s work lends itself particularly well to such a compara- tive reading not only... more
حميدة عندما كانتها شادية وأصبحتها سلمى حايك نجيب محفوظ بالمكسيكي أحمد صلاح الدين طه ناقد وباحث سينمائي - مصر عبارة أثيرة لدى المؤسسات الثقافية، ولدى الكتاب والمتلقين في العالم العربي عامة، عبارة مقتطفة من رواية أولاد حارتنا تقول:... more
The relationship between humanity, love, and war is deeply rooted in the depths of history. These two forces influence each other, though each has its own language and weapons. As literature mirrors the movement of society, it has... more
In questo articolo si analizza la costruzione dell'identità femminile di Modesta attraverso la teoria di Michel Foucault, focalizzandosi sui tre poli fondamentali: sapere, desiderio e potere. La protagonista del romanzo “L'arte della... more
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This paper explores how Toni Morrison's Paradise, a multi-generational and historicallycontextualized narrative on racial anxiety and gender insecurity, contests the transformation of such pathologies into contagious affectivities that... more
Starting from the intertwining of interpretations of the term écriture féminine, this analysis will develop around the 'poethical' and political aspects of Cixous' concept, which could be described as the non-presence of the author,... more
Elena Ferrante's The Lost Daughter (2008) offers a searing interrogation of the fraught intersection between motherhood and female selfhood while exposing the destabilizing effects of maternal ambivalence on women's autonomy. Through the... more
This article explores representations of subjecthood in Netflix's 2018 Italian teen drama Baby through a detailed investigation into the ways that the multiple spaces of an elite private high school in Rome's upper class Parioli... more
Compara la serie argentina que triunfa en Netflix con otra serie basada en "La amiga estupenda", de la italiana Elena Ferrante.
El deseo mimético de Rene Girard
El deseo mimético de Rene Girard
انتهت ما بعد الحداثية في شكلها الأكثر نقاءً، بعد أن قتلتها العولمة؛ حيث أدى الانتصار الصريح للرأسمالية على كل أيديولوجية معارضة إلى انتشار ثقافة استهلاكية واسعة النطاق تتعارض مع أجندة الثقافة المضادة التي ميزت النموذج ما بعد الحداثي؛... more
This article demonstrates how Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey projects an awareness of traumatic shame in the Caribbean transnational travel setting and contributes to the understanding of the epistemology of cultural shame. Hodge's... more
يقدّم كتاب "محنة الكاتب الإفريقي" لتشارلز لارسون قراءة عميقة في التحديات التي واجهت الأدب الإفريقي منذ لحظة تبلوره في ستينيات القرن العشرين، وحتى ما بعد استقلال دول إفريقيا جنوب الصحراء. ويتتبع لارسون كيف نشأ هذا الأدب في ظل أنظمة سياسية... more
This review was accepted and scheduled for publication in Quaderni d’Italianistica, vol. 45, no. 1, but was omitted in the changeover of administrative officers.
In her article “The Female Best-Friend Novel: Narration and the Reconsideration of the Political Act,” Neta Stahl argues that twentieth- and twenty-first-century women novelists borrowed the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century... more
The phenomenon known as Ferrante fever, which has garnered significant attention in America and even led to the creation of a documentary film in 2017, has yet to be comprehensively studied in the context of its reception in Europe,... more
Nel suo celebre romanzo Viaggio al termine della notte, Louis-Ferdinand Céline affermava: «tutto quello che è interessante accade nell'ombra, davvero. Non si sa nulla della vera storia degli uomini». Allo stesso modo siamo consapevoli... more
Noi usiamo le narrazioni per vivere intensamente, ma la scrittura non è un’arte facile da padroneggiare. Ci sono persone genuinamente capaci di imprimere subito tutto quel che serve quando scrivono, ma non dura per sempre e non funziona... more
The goal of this article is to analyze "The African", by J. M. G. Le Clezio, taking support in the author's reflexion about the body. Considering that the nigerian author showcases this theme in his book, we are to examine... more
Arabic literature / Novel
Este ensaio tem por objetivo analisar como a nacionalidade brasileira se constrói no romance de Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada (1960). Trata-se de uma obra autobiográfica, e sendo a autora mulher, pobre... more
A escrita da negra-mulher na contemporaneidade constitui um gesto de resistência e afirmação identitária, que busca romper com os processos históricos de silenciamento e apagamento. Nesse contexto, a literatura é compreendida como uma... more
Destinata ad essere corpo, ma non logos, la donna costruisce la sua parola su di sé nell'assenza di un testo che la comprenda nel grande copione del libro del mondo. Un'assenza che unisce in un legame invisibile scrittrici e poetesse,... more
Neste artigo, analiso a amizade entre as duas protagonistas da série de romances da escritora Elena Ferrante, mais conhecido como “tetralogia na-politana”, à luz da teoria do romance de formação. Se nos romances de... more
Stairs, the narrator suggests a startling sea change in the world of Huntington’s disease (HD). “The news-papers and television and magazines have been full of Huntington’s lately, ” she observes. “Huntington’s has become a fashionable... more
La propuesta se basa en un análisis comparatístico sobre las representaciones de los cuerpos gestantes, puerperios y crianzas presentes en las novelas Noticias sobre Christa T. (1968) de Christa Wolf (1929–2011) y la tetralogía Dos... more
Este ensayo mapea las coordenadas de Elena Ferrante como un fenómeno literario global y, en particular, en relación con la disciplina de los estudios clásicos y la construcción de la personalidad autoral de Ferrante dentro de la tradición... more
La escritura es un tema recurrente en la obra de Elena Ferrante. En sus artículos y entrevistas más recientes, la reflexión sobre el acto de escribir da paso a una reflexión específica sobre las "escritoras". El concepto que propone... more
يكمن نصف جمال الحياة في تعقيدها - في تلك التجارب التي لا يمكن حصر عمقها وأبعادها أو تسويتها أو احتوائها في فئات مرتبة. لا يوجد مكان يكون فيه هذا التعقيد أكبر أو أكثر ثراءً أو مليئًا بالفوارق الدقيقة كما هو الحال في العالم العاطفي للعلاقات... more
إن (طفل الثامنة والتسعين نصراني) عوالم من المعلومات المتناثرة والمتجمعة معًا، وهي كثيفة بحيث تتكاثر وتتناسل داخل العمل من أقصاه إلى أقصاه، فهناك معلومات عن تروتسكي الذي يصفه السارد بصديق المعلمة"سافو"، والتي يرى فيها بطلة للرواية، فيما... more
El presente estudio examina la novela El amor molesto (1992) de Elena Ferrante, centrándose en la complejidad de las relaciones maternofiliales en el contexto de la sociedad patriarcal napolitana. A través del análisis de la narrativa y... more
This article starts from Mikhail Bakhtin's well-known essay on the Bildungsroman to confront his ideas about the representation, by this novelistic genre, of the formation of man, with Paul Ricoeur's concept of narrative identity. The... more
La propuesta consiste en analizar los elementos vinculados con la novela de formación presentes en la tetralogía Dos amigas de Elena Ferrante que comprende las obras: La amiga estupenda (2011), Un mal nombre (2012); Las deudas del cuerpo... more
UAE Folklore and Popular Culture
"Narratives Beyond the Self: Relationality in Contemporary Italian Literature represents the first extensive attempt to map a relational path in contemporary Italian literature. It achieves this by focusing on literary works that... more
Since the 1970s and 1980s, history theorists and historians have been interested in the formal aspects of historiographical texts, problematizing the separation between history and fiction and focusing on what these discursive genres have... more