105 research outputs found
Clive Gabay. Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xi + 270 pp. List of figures. List of tables. References. Index. $105.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1108473606
No full textClive Gabay’s Imagining Africa: Whiteness and the Western Gaze has more to do with post-colonial studies, critical race theory, and Whiteness studies than with African studies. Gabay’s concern is not the continent per se, but rather the history of idealised visions of Africa in the West, informed by the growing anxiety of Whiteness in perpetuating its mythologized genius. In his introduction (9–22), Gabay posits a distinction between “whiteness” (which defines the status of phenotypical white people) and “Whiteness” (which is seen as a system of privilege involving both white and non-white peoples in safeguarding White and Western genius). The author aims at overturning the conventional post-colonial critique of western imaginaries of Africa “by problematising the sense in which the former consistently holds the latter in inferior relation to it” (4)
Spagna tuttifrutti. Dalla morte di Franco al golpe dell'81
No full textAntologia di scritti di diversi autori intorno alla realtà della transizione democratica della Spagna dopo la fine della Dittatura franchistaAntology of texts of different author about the reality of democratic transition of Spain after the end of Francois
Gandolfi, Silvana
No full textA brief description of the main characteristics of the works for children of the Italian author Silvana Gandolfi, the themes she privileges, her way of portraying children, the influence of Oriental culture and philosophy upon her writing
Gaiman, Neil
No full textA brief description of the main characteristics of the works for children of the British author Neil Gaiman, the themes he privileges in his stories, the way he portrays children and the relationship between children and adults
Storie di navi, di case, di cose… L’opera di Roberto Innocenti e la capacità di vedere/narrare oltre l’umano
No full textThis article analyses the work of the author and illustrator Roberto Innocenti in an ecocritical and ecomaterialist perspective. All the books for children created by Innocenti over a forty-year long career (1980s–2020s) are characterized by a passionate attention for things, objects, settings, materials, brought to the forefront and depicted in an iperrealistic way, while human beings are represented as small and distant entities, i.e.: as part of the varied tissue of forms, presences and stories of which the world is made. This propensity to attribute importance and meaning to the non-human world, and especially to ‘things’, is crucial, according to the thinkers of Ecocriticism and New Materialism. After centuries of anthropocentrism, an epistemic shift is necessary to create a new balance between man and environment, mind and matter, subject and object, and this shift can be found in Innocenti’s books, whose narrative/visual strategies succeed in representing reality as a multilayered dimension full of vibrant matter, inextricably human and non-human.L’articolo analizza in ottica ecocritica ed eco-materialista l’opera dell’autore e illustratore Roberto Innocenti. Tutti i libri per l’infanzia che Innocenti ha realizzato (dagli anni Ottanta a oggi) si impongono per un’attenzione appassionata alle ‘cose’, agli oggetti, agli ambienti, agli sfondi, portati in primo piano e iper-realisticamente resi assai più di quanto non accada ai personaggi umani, immancabilmente raffigurati come piccoli e lontani, come parte del variegato tessuto di forme, presenze e storie di cui si compone il mondo. Questa propensione a riconoscere importanza e significatività al non-umano, a fare diventare quello il focus della rappresentazione/narrazione è cruciale per i teorici dell’Ecocriticism, e ancor più del New Materialism, per i quali, dopo secoli di antropocentrismo, è necessario un nuovo paradigma epistemologico capace di ripristinare un equilibrio, in Occidente infranto, fra uomo e ambiente, mente e materia, soggetto e oggetto. Nei libri di Innocenti la realtà è mostrata come dovrebbe sempre essere intesa, per gli studiosi del Post-umano: come una dimensione multiforme, relazionale, composta di vibrante materia, sia essa umana o non-umana
Identità e gerarchia. Gruppi sociali e riconoscimento genealogico in un clan della Somalia meridionale
No full textL'autrice intende ragionare attorno al rapporto tra identità genealogica, forme dell'appartenenza clanica e identità etnica e territoriale, in seguito a una ricerca sul campo condotta a Lama Doonka, villaggio del distretto di Afgooye, in Somalia.Haweenayda qoraaga ahi, kaddib markii ay ku samaysay baaritaan degaanka Lamadoonka, oo ah tuulo ku taallo degmada Afgooy, waxay isku dayday in ay muujiso xiriirka ka dhexeeye haybta abtirsiga iyo haybta degaaneed.The author intends to reason about the relationship between genealogical identity, forms of clan belonging and ethnic and territorial identity. With this aim, she carried out a field research in Doonka Lama, a village in Afgooye district, Somalia.Pier Giorgio Solinas (ed.
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