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    RICOSTRUIRE. I LUOGHI DI MEMORIA NELLE AMERICHE

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    Nel parlare di “luoghi della memoria” il primo riferimento è spesso a siti di interesse storico legati ad avvenimenti di carattere bellico. Tuttavia l’espressione “luoghi di memoria” racchiude nella sua matrice semantica una valenza assai più articolata. Un luogo di memoria può essere inteso come una unità significativa, tanto di ordine materiale che ideale, che la volontà degli esseri umani o il lavorio del tempo hanno reso elemento simbolico di una qualche comunità

    De Buenos Aires a la Ciudad de México. Reconstruir la memoria pública desde una perspectiva de género

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    Este artículo analiza la instalación Ser mujeres en la ESMA. Testimonios para volver a mirar de Buenos Aires y las pintadas dejadas en los monumentos de la Ciudad de México tras la emblemática manifestación feminista del 16 de agosto de 2019 para reflexionar sobre cómo el lenguaje, a partir del espacio normativo del Estado, actúa performativamente en el horizonte cultural de la contemporaneidad para cuestionar la memoria pública a través de una reescritura inclusiva de la historia

    An Imprisoning Site of Passage: Symbolic and Physical Topography in Ambrose Bierce’s ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek’

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    This paper proposes to investigate how memories connected to landmarks of the American Civil War contributed to shape the eerily oneiric imagery in Ambrose Bierce’s short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” Viewing the eponymous trestle as a metaphorical and material site of passage, this study examines the story’s interplay between the semantics of wartime topography, the protagonist’s dream(e)scape, and Bierce’s own experiences of the Civil War as a soldier of the Union army. I maintain that the narrator’s unreliability, acting as a point of transition between multiple interpretations of the tale, diegetically reflects the physical and symbolic function of the bridge

    Discussing the Canon with John Fante and Carlos Bulosan: Immigrant Narratives as Sites of Memory

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    The essay explores diasporic Californian writers John Fante’s and Carlos Bulosan’s practice of mentioning literary models in their autobiographical narratives from an intertextual perspective. The practice reveals instances of affiliation and identity: a way to insert themselves in the dominant literary canon, not simply as a need of assimilation, rather to negotiate their intellectual and social position. Their books are thus sites of United States literary memory through the building of a global canon
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