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Tra 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
Declinazioni della violenza nei romanzi di Aglaja Veteranyi
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the images through which violence manifests itself, in all its modalities, within Aglaja Veteranyi’s two novels: Warum das Kind in der Polenta kocht [Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta] and Das Regal der letzten Atemzüge [The Shelf of the Last Breaths]. In the background there is the institutional violence exercised by the dictatorial regime, which will lead the author’s family to flee Romania, a place that the protagonist will not stop recognizing as “home”. Then the attention will be focused on the dramatic family and social situation, on the unresolved dynamic of self-recognition in relation to the other, in which the linguistic question will play a fundamental role in terms of incommunicability, which is echoed by a narrative style that reflects the author’s intimate lacerations
Le cerveau noir de la littérature et la mémoire du futur
Full text linkIn this article I propose a comparative analysis of different types of prisons represented in engravings and literature, starting with Giovanni Battista Piranesi, who as of 1745 created the collection entitled Carceri d’invenzione. I analyze how Piranesi’s “black brain” (M. Yourcenar) projected, at the age of twenty-five, through his sixteen monumental engravings, a broad anticipatory vision of the violent prisons of the last century, from political jails to extermination gulags. Based on an analysis of the prison literature of the last century (e.g. Solzhenitsyn, Shalamov, Steinhardt etc.), I propose a generic typology of the violent universes described. Last but not least, I explain the anticipatory role of these art forms
Chi ha paura di Virginia Woolf? Genere e crimine nella narrativa greca degli anni ’80
Full text linkThe 1980s witnessed a notable expansion of the Greek publishing scene, a growth reflected in the burgeoning field of Greek crime fiction. This period also saw significant political, economic, and social transformations in Greek society, many of which centered on gender and family dynamics. Within the crime fiction of this decade, women began to occupy key plot positions, and their roles in relation to crime and violence were examined through a gendered lens. Feminist characters emerged, and feminist ideas were discussed and negotiated, even by male characters. The purpose of this article, a gendered reading of 1980s Greek crime fiction, is to analyze the infiltration of feminist thought within a genre predominantly authored by men
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.
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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
La topografia della violenza in Kurzschlüsse. Wien di Ilse Aichinger
Full text linkThe article examines Ilse Aichinger’s texts from Kurzschlüsse. Wien (2001), focusing on her depiction of Vienna’s topography during the Nazi regime. Aichinger’s topographical descriptions, along with subtle historical and cultural references, reveal latent traces of violence and trauma embedded within the cityscape. Through textual examples, this study aims to shed light on how Aichinger’s approach to topography and memory challenges the silence surrounding historical atrocities
Violencia cultural en Europa: herencia colonial y contranarrativas de autoras hispanoamericanas
Full text linkThe article first presents an overview related to the denunciation of symbolic forms of violence within works by female Hispanic American writers residing in Italy and Spain. After circumscribing some theoretical terms and aspects, the text also offers an analysis of Gabriela Wiener’s novel Huaco retrato (2021), which is studied as a synthesis of a cultural and epistemic violence produced by European colonialism in Latin America and whose legacy extends to the present day, showing that it also has deep roots in the private dimension
