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No author better served: the correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider. London: Harvard University Press, 1998
No full textNo author better served reseñado por Nicora, Juan Carlo
An imperfect resistance: Kureishi’s rhetorical strategies as critique in the short-story "My Son the Fanatic".
No full textHanif Kureishi’s work has widely focused on the depiction of multiethnic cultural attitudes and on the shortcomings of the British multicultural project. Well before the recent dramatic events, the author especially concentrated on Islamic fundamentalism in the UK in the novel The Black Album (1995) and in the short story “My Son the Fanatic” (1997), a year later a successful film.
The paper focuses on the analysis of the narrative and rhetorical strategies deployed by Kureishi to deal with the issue of fundamentalism, rising the question of the ethic responsibility of the author in working out his representational practices.
While providing a portrait of contemporary British society and hinting at the reasons that can explain why the fundamentalist version of Islam is so appealing for young generations in the UK, Kureishi enacts a literary strategy that furthers the sociological exploration of the phenomenon, to include and ponder on its linguistic features. He also provides a critique of the communicative model on which the fundamentalist attitude rests. Caricature and satire prevail in The Black Album, but the risk of naturalizing stereotypes of religious and cultural attitudes is real, so it raises the question of the writer’s responsibility in dealing with fundamentalism in literature, since rhetorical strategies impinge on the ethic rather than on the aesthetic side of this delicate topic. The short story “My Son the Fanatic” undermines stereotypes, foregrounding and questioning the stereotypical phrasing that voices fundamentalist issues. The use of point of view and the open paradoxical ending of the short story prove to be effective instruments to enhance awareness of the risks connected to embracing highly ideological representational strategies
Letteratura e politiche urbane: le contro-narrative di Hackney
No full textA partire dalla raccolta di racconti e poesie Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, l’articolo prende in esame il rapporto tra letteratura e fenomeni di resistenza alle politiche urbane in atto nella Londra del terzo millennio, destinate a trasformare intere aree urbane. La raccolta, diventata un caso letterario e anche ‘pietra angolare’ della casa editrice indipendente londinese Influx Press, ha dato voce a una serie di letterati che vivono o hanno vissuto nel quartiere di Hackney, sollecitandoli a proporre il loro racconto del luogo in un momento di grandi cambiamenti e dell’attuazione di politiche di ‘gentrification’ destinate a cambiarne le fisionomia negli anni a venire. Queste voci più recenti hanno in parte preso le distanze dal più noto e celebrato contro-narratore della Londra contemporanea e di Hackney, Iain Sinclair. Lo scarto generazionale gioca un ruolo decisivo nell’espressione di un immaginario locale e delle aspirazioni che riguardano i modi dell’abitare.
L’analisi dei testi raccolti da Gary Budden e Kit Caless offre la possibilità di indagare quale ruolo può assumere la letteratura nel tentativo di dare voce a una prospettiva più prossima a quella degli abitanti, ancorché si tratti in questo caso di abitanti particolari, letterati e scrittori, capaci di una osservazione partecipata e di una restituzione nelle forme del testo letterario.
Il volume, nato dalla sollecitazione dei curatori, esprime una coralità inaspettata e riflette una ‘narrativa del luogo’ che si affianca alle narrative, più o meno esplicite, sottese alle politiche urbane (in questo caso quelle della Londra Olimpica). Può la letteratura influire su queste potenti narrative che intrecciano interessi economici e immaginario urbano? Può offrire uno strumento di interpretazione che solleciti la riflessione e renda i lettori prosumer consapevoli di un possibile potere di indirizzo?The article examines some literary representations of reactions and resistance to urban policies and development programs which have been put in place in London, especially in view of the Olympics Game of 2012. It focuses on the area of Hackney (East London), moving from the analysis of Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, a collection of short stories and poems, edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless which has become a literary case and the cornerstone of newly founded Influx Press. Through a variety of fiction, poems, non-fiction pieces, mostly in a non-realistic, postmodern mood, twenty-five authors, who live or used to live in the borough, respond imaginatively to the changes going on in this multicultural area and, implicitly, claim the right to have a word on the policies meant to transform Hackey in a ‘cool’ neighbourhood. These voices take some distance from the most celebrated counter-narrator of London and Hackney, Iain Sinclair. The choral narrative of Acquired for Development by...A Hackney Anthology, includes also provocative, unexpected citizens: youth subcultures and squatters speak their sense of place, as also the ‘crevices and the gaps’ of Hackney are inhabited and gentrification is going to swallow the anarchic energy hidden in disrupted areas.
What role literature may play in constructing multiple (counter-)narratives of place? What is the possible output of encouraging awareness that urban policies are steered by narratives that are not as inclusive as claim to be? These are some of the question addressed by the paper
"Thrilling Empire": Indian history and questions of genre in Victorian popular fiction
No full textThe article focuses on the features of a subgenre rather popular with the Victorians, neglected (although evoked) by major, canonic novelists. The Mutiny novel has been identified by recent criticism as one of the pieces of the mosaic in the construction of British identity.
This model of identity supports the national imperialist vocation, extolling British qualities and representing historical events in mythical, stereotypical and racist fashion, according to clear, and closely monitored, ideological values. At the same time these novels offer fertile ground to explore the uncertainties and the contradictions that complicate the pattern, warning against any simplistic attitude towards Victorian Weltanschaaung. An interesting author in this regard is George Chesney, mostly known for his The Battle of Dorking or for his works about Indian administration. Chesney is the author of a Mutiny novel, The Dilemma (1876), that sets a plot typical of the sensational novel against the background of the Rebellion, revealing the powerful anxieties inherent the colonial adventure. Other novelists who wrote on the Rebellion (G. Henty, J.F. Fanthorne among them) are equally interesting to explore the ambiguities of identity construction
Triassic stratigraphy in the island of Hydra (Greece)
No full textThe Triassic sedimentary succession, cropping out in the island of Hydra, is described. A typical passive continental margin succession is recorded in the Triassic of Hydra, suggesting its affinity with the Subpelagonian domain. -from Author
Mi cuerpo, mi decisión. Una experiencia extensionista sobre parto respetado en la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
No full textFil: Becerra, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Nicora, María Valeria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Pereyra, María Liliana. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades; Argentina.Fil: Arnao, Magdalena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.Fil: Reano, Lucía. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades; Argentina.En el presente trabajo nos proponemos compartir una reconstrucción reflexiva de una experiencia extensionista sobre Parto Respetado sostenida por el equipo interdisciplinario e interinstitucional de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FCS) y la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades (FFyH) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). La experiencia que nombramos como Mi cuerpo, mi decisión se construyó con las voces de mujeres de barrios populares de nuestra ciudad, usuarias de servicios de salud pública y junto a integrantes de equipos de salud de instituciones públicas que, en general, ocupaban posiciones subalternas en sus espacios laborales. El entramado de actores de diversas procedencias y trayectorias posibilita un proceso dialógico en torno a saberes y conocimientos problematizadores de las estructuras y prácticas que reproducen la violencia obstétrica, entendida como un tipo de violencia de género que afecta a mujeres y personas con capacidad de gestar. Analizamos y discutimos los fundamentos, alcances y aprendizajes de las acciones realizadas, elaboraciones y dispositivos formativos construidos desde un amplio enfoque de derechos. Las conceptualizaciones de la extensión crítica y los feminismos nos aportan perspectivas desde las dimensiones epistemológicas, éticas y políticas para que, desde la universidad, acompañemos propuestas que contribuyan en la discusión sobre las políticas públicas y la concreción de derechos consagrados para todas, todos y todes.https://unr.edu.ar/cuadernos-feministas-para-la-transversalizacion/Fil: Becerra, Natalia. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Nicora, María Valeria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina.Fil: Pereyra, María Liliana. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades; Argentina.Fil: Arnao, Magdalena. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.Fil: Reano, Lucía. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades; Argentina.Ciencias Sociales Interdisciplinaria
A new Metapolygnathus platform conodont species and its implications for Upper Carnian global correlations
No full textA rich conodont fauna from two Neotethyan sections, Pizzo Mondello (western Sicily, Italy) and Pignola 2 sections (southern Apennines, Italy) includes conodonts described herein as a new species. Metapolygnathus praecommunisti sp. nov. is transitional between Paragondolella noah and Metapolygnathus communisti. The genus Metapolygnathus (including M. praecommunisti) is now characterised by posterior prolongation of the keel termination, associated with a centrally located pit and with a weak ornamentation confined to the anterior part of the platform margins. The establishment of M. praecommunisti addresses the problems related to the origin and the peculiar, probably facies-controlled, distribution of its descendant species M. communisti. Since M. praecommunisti occurs in the entire Tethys and in North America, we propose the species as a good guide fossil for global correlations, characterised by a short temporal range limited to the uppermost Tuvalian (upper Carnian). The stratigraphic occurrence of the genus Metapolygnathus is restricted to the Tuvalian-Lacian (upper Carnian-lower Norian), excluding its presence in the Julian substage (lower Carnian)
A new Metapolygnathus platform conodont species and its implications for Upper Carnian global correlations
No full textA rich conodont fauna from two Neotethyan sections, Pizzo Mondello (western Sicily, Italy) and Pignola 2 sections (southern Apennines, Italy) includes conodonts described herein as a new species. Metapolygnathus praecommunisti sp. nov. is transitional between Paragondolella noah and Metapolygnathus communisti. The genus Metapolygnathus (in− cluding M. praecommunisti) is now characterised by posterior prolongation of the keel termination, associated with a cen− trally located pit and with a weak ornamentation confined to the anterior part of the platform margins. The establishment of M. praecommunisti addresses the problems related to the origin and the peculiar, probably facies−controlled, distribu− tion of its descendant species M. communisti. Since M. praecommunisti occurs in the entire Tethys and in North America, we propose the species as a good guide fossil for global correlations, characterised by a short temporal range limited to the uppermost Tuvalian (upper Carnian). The stratigraphic occurrence of the genus Metapolygnathus is restricted to the Tuvalian–Lacian (upper Carnian–lower Norian), excluding its presence in the Julian substage (lower Carnian)
Begumbagh: a tale of the Indian Mutiny
No full textA differenza di molti romanzi sulla Ribellione indiana del 1857, "Begumbagh: a tale of the Mutiny" (1879) di George Manville Fenn, affida la narrazione a un soldato semplice di estrazione popolare. Isaac Smith, il protagonista, è un reduce mutilato che conduce una vita modesta e anonima a Londra, dopo essere sopravvissuto con pochi altri a un assedio e a una fuga rocambolesca nell’India infiammata dalla rivolta. Il romanzo di G. M. Fenn coniuga la rievocazione mitografica del Mutiny con una prospettiva che esplicita i meccanismi di classe che regolano la costruzione identitaria britannica imperiale
New record of Oribatula (Zygoribatula) nicora (Djaparidze, 1986) comb. nov from Turkey with a redescription of species
No full textLucoppia nicora Djaparidze, 1986 was found in garlic fields in the Kastamonu region of Turkey. This finding is a new record for Turkey and also the first finding after its description from Nikortsminda cave and a vegetable garden in Tbilisi, Georgia. Redescription of the species is accompanied by a discussion of its taxonomic status. Based on differences having generic character in the structure of the prodorsum (length of lamellae; width of translamellae; distance between ro, le, and in setae), L nicora is regarded as belonging to the subgenus Oribatula (Zygoribatula). Oribatula (Zygoribatula) nicora (Djaparidze, 1986) comb. nov. is proposed. A new diagnosis for the subgenus Zygoribatula is provided
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