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La metafora del viaggio come esperienza conoscitiva nella Svezia postmigrante: il caso di "Kan du säga Shibbolet?" di Marjaneh Bakhtiari
Get PDFIn the novel Kan du säga Schibbolet? (2008) (Can you say Shibboleth?), Marjaneh Bakhtiari focuses on the topic of travel, creating a bridge between Sweden and Iran. Through the experience in Tehran of the sisters Baran and Parisa, who were born in Malmö to Iranian exiles, the author interweaves intergenerational experiences and narrates the journey as a metaphor for dislocation of identities and discovery, both individual and 'familial and collective' (Ciaravolo 2017, p. 51). The journey of the two sisters represents the crossing of a narrative-discursive threshold set by their parents, who recall the terror of the theocratic oppression of post-revolutionary Iran. By discovering the present-day Iran, the two sisters move beyond their parents' prejudices and fears towards a homeland now lost and only 'imagined' (Rushie 1991), then going back to Sweden with new and unexpected perspectives on Iran. This study aims to highlight how Baran and Parisa, through the insightful experience of travel, experience the difficult coexistence and silent cultural opposition of the younger generation to the theocratic regime. Furthermore, it will be shown how Bakhtiari, through an intergenerational perspective shift, thanks to old photos, allows for the examination and reconstruction of the past, opening up new spaces for identity negotiation, both for the diaspora and post-migrant generations. Methodologically, this contribution relies on Marianne Hirsch's concept of post-memory, in order to answer the following question: "does the distance open any other doors?" (Rushdie 1991, p. 13). By analyzing the experience of re-discovery and re-rooting, both in Sweden and in Iran, we understand that Baran, Parisa and the parents are authentic destinerrant subjectivities (Derrida 1997) who, in their journey from Sweden to Iran and vice versa, confirm "the notion that something can also be gained" (Rushdie 1991, p. 17).Nel romanzo Kan du säga Schibbolet? (2008) (Sai dire Shibboleth?, Marjaneh Bakhtiari pone al centro il tema del viaggio creando un ponte tra Svezia e Iran. Attraverso l’esperienza a Teheran delle sorelle Baran e Parisa, nate a Malmö da esiliati iraniani, l’autrice intreccia esperienze intergenerazionali e racconta il viaggio come metafora di dislocazione e scoperta identitaria, sia individuale che “familiare e collettiva” (Ciaravolo 2017, p. 51). Il viaggio delle due sorelle indica il superamento di una soglia narrativo-discorsiva predisposta dai genitori, che ricordano con terrore l’oppressione teocratica dell’Iran post-rivoluzionario. Scoprendo l’Iran odierno, le sorelle si inoltrano al di là dei pregiudizi e delle paure genitoriali verso una patria ormai persa e soltanto ‘immaginata’ (Rushie 1991), tornando in Svezia con prospettive nuove e inaspettate sull’Iran. Questo studio si propone di evidenziare come Baran e Parisa, attraverso l’esperienza conoscitiva del viaggio, osservino la difficile convivenza e la silente opposizione culturale delle giovani generazioni al regime teocratico. Inoltre, si mostrerà come Bakhtiari, attraverso lo shift prospettico intergenerazionale, testimoniato da vecchie fotografie, permetta di esaminare e ricostruire il passato aprendo nuovi spazi di negoziazione identitaria, sia alle generazioni della diaspora che a quelle postmigranti. Metodologicamente, il contributo si avvale del concetto di postmemoria di Marianne Hirsch, cercando di rispondere alla domanda “does the distance open any other doors?” (Rushdie 1991, p. 13). Analizzando l’esperienza di ri-scoperta e ri-radicamento, sia nel sistema di riferimento svedese che in quello iraniano, si giungerà infine alla risposta che Baran, Parisa e i genitori siano autentiche soggettività destinerranti (Derrida 1997) che, nel passaggio dalla Svezia all’Iran e viceversa, confermano “the notion that something can also be gained” (Rushdie 1991, p. 17)
A magic potion in present-day Sweden
No full text-In this article, I will investigate the short story Elixir in Alejandro Leiva Wenger’s debut collection Till vår ära (In Our Honour, 2001), where a magic drink with transformative effects converts dark-skinned characters with foreign background into racially typical Nordic individuals. Since the story relates to both physical and behavioural changes, the transracial metamorphosis becomes a central trope to discuss and contest racial and social stratification in ways that the Swedish predominant colour-blind and antiracist discourse does not allow. Critical attention will be devoted to the reaction developed by the characters against the transformation. The main argument is that Leiva Wenger resorts to a supernatural event to question asymmetrical relations between immigrants and Swedes, where whiteness is the norm and non-whiteness is deviance. Developing Hübinette’s critical thought concerning race and whiteness in “non-white Swedish literature” (2019), this theoretic analysis of Elixir investigates the intersections between race/whiteness from postcolonial and postmigrant perspectives, in the attempt to figure out what is the allegorical meaning of the elixir and how it relates to a folkhem (people’s home) in crisis. This approach aims to highlight the (im)possibility for the postmigrant subject to locate itself in a Third space of identity.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
SWEDISH SUBURBS AS HETEROTOPIAS: TOWARDS A MULTICULTURAL LITERATURE OF PLACES
Get PDFUrban literary studies have become an important issue in contemporary multicultural Sweden, especially after the 70s, when the public housing project Miljonprogram (“Million Programme”) was completed (1974). Nowadays, these areas are partly regarded as a political failure since they have become places of social and even racial segregation. A central cultural consequence of multiculturalism in Sweden is the so-called Invandrarlitteratur (“immigrants’ literature”), mainly represented by second-generation authors. In this article, I will try to provide a concise but exhaustive understanding of how this kind of literature can reshape the Miljonprogram areas and define what Sweden is today. The aim is to show how these suburban spaces, through a chosen collection of three works, are narrated by immigrant authors not as sites, i.e. spaces as such, but rather as places, i.e. spaces whose meaning is provided by the (literary) subjectivities who live and act therein (Prieto 2013). Using the concept of heterotopia (Foucault 1986) and its defining criteria, I will investigate how these works perform a total reassertion of space, emphasizing the space described as rhizomatic (Deleuze & Guattari 2011) peripheries, i.e. the result of a sensitive relationship between self and space. This investigation is designed to reflect on how the perception of suburbs has changed from first to second-generation immigrant writers and it hopes to open a new research line in which stigmatizing dystopias can be replaced by heterotopias
Searching Heimat: Halim\u27s Journey in the Imaginary Geographies of the Orient in «Ett öga rött» by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
No full textThe contribution investigates the Swedish novel Ett öga rött (One Eye Red) by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, focusing on the protagonist Halim’s insistent search for an Arab Heimat located in “imaginary geographies”, from which he finally detaches himself acquiring the consciousness of being a post-migrant subject who lives with “ease of presence” in Swedish society.L’articolo indaga il romanzo svedese Ett öga rött di Jonas Hassen Khemiri, con attenzione sull’insistente ricerca del protagonista Halim di una Heimat araba situata in delle “geografie immaginarie”, da cui poi si distacca acquisendo coscienza di essere un soggetto postmigrante che vive con “agio della presenza” nella società svedese
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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