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Sì, doman: il futuro di Venezia tra incanto e disincanto
Full text linkThis paper looks at different discourses about the future of Venice, presenting four different types of generic approaches (respectively oriented at the past, present, future, and eternity of this city, at once real and mythical) and concluding that scholars interested in and concerned with the prospects of Venice are in the position of taking an active role in changing them
Essere qualcun altro. Ebrei postmoderni e postcoloniali
Full text linkPartendo dalla premessa che in una società sempre più globalizzata ma meno equa, una presenza ebraica plurale e dinamica può offrire un contributo importante, questo libro propone una lettura critica di romanzi, opere teatrali, fotografie, fumetti, luoghi e fenomeni culturali di rilievo. I saggi qui raccolti offrono una intepretazione postmoderna e postcoloniale del mondo ebraico, nel tentativo di superare quell’"allosemitismo" che secondo Zygmunt Bauman porta a considerare l'ebreo come 'altro' incomparabile e stereotipato. Accostando “sacro” e “profano”, laico e religioso, teatro e sinagoga, testo e corpo, colto e pop, ebrei e musulmani, il volume esplora diverse realtà ebraiche nella loro singolarità, spaziando da Shakespeare a Philip Roth, da Irène Némirowsky a Salman Rushdie, da Dracula al hip hop ebraico, dal "Gatto del rabbino" alla bambola Barbie, dagli ebrei dell’Africa e quelli del Ghetto di Venezia, dalle contraddizioni del modello ebraico italiano agli esperimenti di reinvenzione liturgica in Nordamerica. Ciò che emerge da questo complesso mosaico è che stiamo attraversando un momento di grande crisi ma anche di grande creatività ebraica
The Venetian Ghetto and modern Jewish identity
No full textA cultural analysis of the changing relationship between the Ghetto of Venice and Jewish identity focused on three different historical moments. The first “centripetal” moment (early 16th century) covers the establishing of the Ghetto as a Jewish quarter. The second, “centrifugal” moment (late 19th-early 20th c.) analyzes the social division of the Jews after emancipation and their contradictory attitudes towards the Ghetto. The third, “gravitational” moment takes into account the revival of the Jewish community after the Shoah and explores its most recent developments. A coda envisions some future scenarios for this globally renowned site
Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare. Place, "Race," Politics
Full text linkThis book investigates the cultural difference of Italy in and through Shakespeare. It looks at the encounter, collision, intermingling of the ‘country dispositions’ represented respectively by Shakespeare and Italy, both understood as vast constellations rather than fixed stars. The obvious premise is that several plays by Shakespeare are adaptated from Italian sources; the additional context is the constant presence of Shakespeare in Italian culture from the mid-nineteenth century on. The classical topic "Shakespeare and Italy" is here revisited from a new perspective, focussing on the playwright’s Italian afterlife through the lens of the three categories that structure this book: place, ‘race’, and politics. My twofold and chiastic objective is to ask how Italy explains Shakespeare and how Shakespeare explains Italy, seeking possible answers in various texts, events, sites: a Victorian racialist interpretation of Shakespeare that casts Iago as the archetypal Italian specimen; a Romantic adaptation of Othello written in Venice under Austrian rule; the Fascist appropriations of Shakespeare; the disparate uses of Machiavelli in recent Shakespearean criticism; the absence of Giordano Bruno in Shakespeare studies after Frances Yates; an essay on Hamlet by a prominent Italian philosopher and politician; monuments and sites associated with Shakespeare in Verona and Venice; the Taviani brothers’ filmic version of Julius Caesar
I pericoli della razza: riflessioni italiane a partire da Paul Gilroy
Full text linkRace dangers: Italian reflections starting from Paul Gilroy’s
The controversial claim by Paul Gilroy that the category of ‘race’ should be dropped altogether will be discussed in conjunction with the recent plea from the Italian Institute of Anthropology that the term 'razza' should be eliminated from the Italian constitution. I will briefly explore the implications of these two bold suggestions, arguing that they do not contradict the urgent need to interrogate the various raciologies that have plagued past and present Italy. I argue that any attempt to use the Italian word 'razza' to translate the English 'race', even used in its primary sociological and critical meaning, runs the risk of obscuring crucial differences between Italy and the anglosphere: the low degree of scientific literacy in Italy, where an understanding of race is still largely biological; the development of parallel rather than interlocked historiographies of antisemitism and colonial racism; the centrality of religion and ethnicity in most recent European conflicts vis-à-vis that of race in American society. For all of these reasons, I believe that while it is urgent and indispensable to analyze all the phenomena and dynamics that are usually studied under the rubric of 'race' in English speaking countries (and especially in North America), it is advisable to explore a different Italian vocabulary, avoiding the dissemination of 'razza’, whose last mass circulation occurred during Fascism
Le avventure di Hadassah Gross: un personaggio radicale della scena statunitense
No full textThis essay analyzes the character Hadassah Gross, a Jewish drag queen who presents in her performances an original approach to the relationship between homosexuality and Jewishness, and more generally offers a radically new model of intertwining tradition and modernity in contemporary Jewish society
Il cortile del mondo
No full textAll the world ghettos derive their name from the Ghetto of Venice, which after its establishment in 1561 became a place of segregation but also vibrant Jewish cultural and intercultural center. After its gates were demolished in 1797 this small area was forgotten by the writers forging the new literary myth of Venice. Half a millennium after the foundation of the Ghetto, eighteen writers, women and men from four continents and from diverse ethnicities, languages, religions, were invited to visit the Ghetto and reimagine it their short stories and essays for the new millennium. This anthology presents their writings, with an introduction by the editor and two critical essays by Sara Civai and Lucio De Capitani, examining respectively the representation of the Ghetto in Italian and international literatures
Turbo Road. Il Kenya, i suoi scrittori, un bambino
No full textTurbo Road è una piccola strada nei sobborghi di Nairobi. Qui vive una nuova famiglia: due genitori italiani e un figlio kenyano. È da qui che parte questa indagine letteraria - fatta di letture, interviste, visite a scrittori più o meno famosi - pensata come guida ideale per andare oltre l'Africa stereotipata dell'immaginario occidentale. Il volume racconta otto mesi trascorsi in Kenya, intrecciando piccole avventure familiari a viaggi e incontri con romanzieri, poeti, giornalisti, registi, attori, editori, attivisti. Ogni capitolo affronta un tema principale: il plurilinguismo e l'appello di Ngugi wa Thiong'o ad abbandonare l'inglese; il fermento creativo promosso dalla rivista "Kwani?"; la metropoli e le sue mille stratificazioni sociali; femminismo e ambientalismo; la questione della "tribù" e la violenza politica. E ognuno di questi temi conduce infine a una meta emblematica: abitazioni, istituti culturali, redazioni, musei, centri commerciali, gallerie d'arte, orfanotrofi, parchi, il mare
Shakespeare: guida al Mercante di Venezia
No full textGuida critica introduttiva della commedia Il Mercante di Venezia di William Shakespeare. “Non ha occhi un ebreo?” Nella Venezia rinascimentale il prestatore di denaro Shylock esige una libbra di carne del mercante Antonio come penale per un debito non ripagato e si confronta in tribunale con la nobildonna Porzia travestita da avvocato. Da quattro secoli questa trama controversa drammatizza i più radicati stereotipi sul rapporto tra ebrei, denaro e vendetta e insieme genera empatia e comprensione per una minoranza perseguitata da una società ipocrita. In questa commedia resa tragica dalla storia, Shakespeare tratta anche di amore e amicizia, dell’intreccio tra affetti e denaro, economia e comunità. Il volume analizza date, fonti e contesti, studia le principali questioni stilistiche e i temi fondamentali, offrendo infine una rassegna della storia critica, teatrale e dei principali adattamenti che continuano a riattualizzare l’opera a livello globale
The Environmental Humanities at Ca’ Foscari: Old and New
Full text linkThis short article traces the genesis of the Master's Degree and the connected research programs and project on the environmental humanities at Ca' Foscari university of Venice, showing how if the denomination is fairly recent, the interest for the relevant topics has a much longer interdisciplinary history, connected, among others, to environmental studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology. A key moment was the establishment of the Center for the Humanities and Social Change that since its inception in 2017 placed the relationship between the humanities and climate change and the center of its critical thinking
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