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La letteratura horror e fantasy
No full textBreve excursus sulle tendenze della letteratura horror e fantasy statunitense tra la fine del Novecento e l'inizio del nuovo millenni
“The Only Cure I Know Is a Good Ceremony": Post-traumatic Reconstruction of Identity in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
No full textThe article deals with the representation of post-traumatic stress disorder in Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony (1977), and with the complex psychological and cultural procedures of identity reconstruction its protagonist, half-blood Tayo, must follow in order to find some sort of inner balancing. Tayo’s traumatic experience of war seems to schizophrenically split his identity, turning his “real” self into a Lacanian absence (the symptom of the “Real”), a void that denounces the source of the trauma (not the war in itself, which is mainly a metaphorical projection of Tayo’s inner conflict, but his being neither Indian nor white) by erasing it from Tayo’s consciousness and substituting it with a mythical plot that constructs him as a scapegoat-like figure responsible for the drought afflicting the Reservation. Both the novel and its main character at the end manage to reach some sort of coherence by accepting the unrepresentable Real and turning it upside down: they both finally reject the dream of a homogenous identity, and the trauma, no more something to be simply “cured,” is transformed into a source of self-definition, thanks to the equally polymorphic, hybrid, “broken” ceremonies Tayo is subject to in the novel
“Il civile outsider: Francis Otto Matthiessen, un critico ai tempi di McCarthy”
No full textBreve biografia di Francis Otto Matthiesse
Diasporic identities: Multilingual biographies in Henry Roth's Call It Sleep
No full textAnalysis of the role of multilingualism in the formation of a trans-cultural identity in Henry Roth's Call It Slee
Review of The Marble Faun. Art, nature, and morals between classicism and aestheticism, by Simone Turco (Canterano, Aracne, 2020)
No full textThe review focuses on the author's attempt to draw an ample and complex portrait of the multiple and contradictory impulses lying underneath Hawthorne’s ambiguous reconfiguration, in The Marble Faun, of his own personal experience of Italy and of Classical Art, and projecting him at the crux of the equally conflicting passage, in Western culture, from late neo-Classicism through full Romanticism and into early Aestheticism
La democrazia delle visioni: Tre saggi sull’Essere poeta di Ralph Waldo Emerson
No full textRecensione della traduzione italiana di tre saggi di Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Il poeta", "Poesia e immaginazione" e "Ispirazione"), in Essere poeta, Bergamo, Moretti & Vitali, 200
"For the Bright Side of the Painting I Had a Limited Sympathy": Emancipation and Counter-Emancipation in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
No full textThe article focuses on the contradictory construction of a free and self-reliant (and “imperialist”) white male identity in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Poe’s romance builds up the myth of sea travelling as a way to reach an individual emancipation from the constraints (but also privileges) of social and familiar conditioning which ultimately fails due to a sort of “return of the repressed,” of the censored reality that allows those same socio-familiar conditions to exist as they are – namely, the subjugation of black or non-white people who in the romance do not accept the role white domination would like to impose on them. On the other hand, the analogies linking Pym’s predicament to the condition of African Americans in antebellum America (something symbolically alluded to in the famous quote “For the bright side of the painting I had a limited sympathy”) threaten to subvert Poe’s construction of a free and authorative white identity, undermined also by the sheer fact that at the end of the romance we have only one last man standing who knows the final outcome of the story – and this man is not Pym, but mixed-blood Dirk Peters, half white and half Indian, and showing some distinctly African American somatic features. The route of the American “ship” comes therefore to ultimately look as already bound towards a dramatic redefinition of the power relationships between whites and non-whites, despite Pym’s (and Poe’s) desperate attempt to resist this change and reinstall individual and collective white authority
Come raffica di mitra. "Gli assassini" (1927): Modello tematico e stilistico di un genere fortunato
No full textBreve analisi dell'influenza di Hemingway sul sotto-genere dell'hard-boile
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