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Norman Manea, L’ombra in esilio, traduzione di Roberto Merlo e Barbara Pavetto, il Saggiatore, Milano 2023
Full text linkTra orientalismo e anticolonialismo. L’islam di Leda Rafanelli come scelta spirituale e politica
Full text linkLeda Bruna Rafanelli (1880-1971) is known as an author and a social agitator, as well as an anarchist and a pacifist. The focus of this essay is on her conversion to Islam, about which very little is known, and whose path and process is analyzed in the light of her personal, spiritual and political biography. The complexity of her figure is here delineated mostly through her writings, that include positions that are strongly critical of European and Western colonialism and civilization, together with a vision that, however, is still linked to the Orientalist culture of her time. Her distorted image of the Orient, embodying an ideal, free world and the cornerstone of opposition to modernity and to contemporary society, nurtured her choice of Islam, the religion of colonized peoples, in very personal ways. Her choices drew criticism for their alleged contradictions, but the aim of this essay is rather to multiply the polyvocality and individual narratives, by placing case studies such as that of Leda Rafanelli alongside other “figures of the crossing”, and to contribute to deconstructing the imaginary about female conversions to Islam and radical political positioning (such as anarchism) that is still widespread in many fields
Vestiti di sangue: oltranze e feticismi dell’eros cavalleresco
Full text linkThis study adopts a resolutely anthropological approach to examine the interplay of Ares and Eros. This nexus—comprising ideological, thematic, iconic, and emotional elements—constitutes the core and principal site of tension in the instinctual drives and sensibilities that shape the discourse on the symbolic practices and performances of chivalry in medieval French fiction. These dynamics are explored across both romances and shorter narrative forms. The interweaving of Arma and Amor profoundly informs the combative and sentimental protagonism of knights (milites). It plays a crucial role in constructing an imaginary of civilisation and a framework for containing primal impulses. This containment involves the regimentation of warrior ferocity and sexual predation. However, beyond the moral pressures exerted by ecclesiastical authority and the constraints of courtly pedagogy, some narratives highlight the more brutal and violent aspects of chivalric conduct. These tales emphasise the warrior-amorous libido but sublimate it into a highly stylised and idealised form. This process transforms these impulses into a captivating aesthetic value. Jacques de Baisieux’s Des trois chevaliers et del chainse serves as the primary case study for this analysis. It is examined in dialogue with other texts and situated within the broader literary tradition. This approach reconstructs an ideology of erotic excess and martial extremity. The roots of this ideology appear to intertwine ethological and sociological imperatives with universal psychic dynamics and the demands of “figurative” representation
„Devenirea-minoritar”: o strategie de supraviețuire în scrierile Soranei Gurian
Full text linkSorana Gurian’s writings explore the search for a space where gendered selves can freely express amidst social, political, or sexual threats. She transcends peripheral status through bilingual works in French and Romanian, revealing modernist identities and struggles for emancipation. Despite promised freedom, modernity often leads to incarceration, highlighting internal incoherence and marginalization. Her “becoming-minoritarian” strategy imagines alternative subjectivities to challenge hegemonies and survive others’ violence
Grigore Silași: la răspântia naționalismelor europene
Full text linkGrigore Silași was the first Romanian professor at the Royal Hungarian University from Cluj/ Kolozsvár, a city situated in the multi-ethnic region of Transylvania. This study proposes an analysis of the linguistic nationalism of Grigore Silași (professor of Romanian language and literature between 1872 and 1884) in the cultural, ideological, academic and political context of Transylvania of his time, as well as a comparison between his vision of language and that of his Hungarian colleagues, who shared the same nationalist perspective
Constantin Vasilescu (coord.), Morfologia (ne)vinovăției: alfabetul detenției feminine în comunism, Litera, București 2022
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Désesthétisation de la violence. Notes sur les Sonnets de la mort de Bernard Noël
Full text linkBernard Noël’s Sonnets of Death, whose title echoes those of Jean de Sponde, deal with the tortured body, with the extreme violence to which it is subjected in the age of modern techniques for afflicting pain. In these poems, violence is only evoked in a dismemberment, a disarticulation, and it is poetry itself that is tortured, in a “de-aestheticization” of the sonnet in which all the traditional elements are disfigured. It seemed to the author that only short notes could convey the violence of this unachieved – and terrible – book of sonnets
Pietro Della Valle il Pellegrino. Grammatica della Lingua Turca, edizione critica a cura di Nevin Özkan, Raniero Speelman e A. Melek Özyetgin. Firenze: Accademia della Crusca, 2023, 213 pp.
Full text link(A)simmetrie. Adriana Georgescu e Sorana Gurian: due memorie allo specchio
Full text linkHumanly distant, Adriana Georgescu, secretary of General Rădescu, and Sorana Gurian, member of the literary group Sburător, apparently had in common just the journalistic practice and the anti-Nazi/anticommunist activity. However, at the beginning of the fifties, they published in France two memoirs that describe two of the “-isms” that bent Romania in the twentieth century. Their personal (and painful) experience took shape respectively in the volumes Au commencement était la fin. La dictature rouge à Bucarest (Hachette, Paris 1951) and Les mailles du filet. Mon journal de Roumanie (Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1950) that denounce the (ill)concealed violence beyond the Iron Curtain