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What food do we feed girls as artists upon? Food, artistic and gender equality in children's literature
No full textVirginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own builds a strong connection between food and the mate-rial conditions of women writers. From this point of view, food can be considered a metaphor for the achievement of both artistic and gender equality. Hence, my paper aims to outline the relevance of this under-investigated topic in children’s literature, focusing on feminist Künstellromans, namely stories about a female artist’s journey to maturity. Drawing from Nodelman, I investigate two opposite narrative situations: famine and feast. In the first one, the lack of food represents the struggle in the artistic development, often caused by a hostile educational environment, while, in the second, nourishment can be interpreted as fruitful sustainment for the body and soul. My hypothesis seeks to underline how food and girls’ development as women and artist intertwines, figuring out a possible answer to Woolf ’s question
BIOGRAFIE E DIVULGAZIONE SCIENTIFICA: QUALI RICADUTE PEDAGOGICHE?
No full textLa letteratura per l’infanzia e l’adolescenza contemporanea pre-senta un numero crescente di biografie dedicate a personalità del mondo della scienza. Intrecciando finalità pedagogiche e conoscitive, queste figure sono presentate come esempi di traiettorie esistenziali in cui i giovani lettori possano riconoscersi, ma anche come fonti per approfondire diversi campi del sapere. In particolare, le biografie di scienziate testimoniano il contributo femminile alla storia della scienza, qualificandosi come forme di divulgazione di metodi, teorie e scoperte spesso rimasti in ombra.Il contributo indaga le ricadute pedagogiche del racconto di vita, a partire da figure paradigmatiche, quali la matematica Ipazia d’Alessandria, la fisica Marie Curie e la neurologa Rita Levi-Montalcini. Pertanto, l’analisi verte sulle rappresentazioni delle scienziate e sull’immaginario scientifico, nel rapporto tra modelli d’azione, iconografie e valenze simboliche della ricerca
WOMEN’S BIOGRAPHIES IN ITALIAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE (1962-2022). HISTORICAL AND ECOFEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
No full textThe research focuses on a largely unexplored literary genre in Italian children's and young adult literature, namely biography, specifically the biographies about female characters. Such narratives present young readers with models of behavior, sources of knowledge from various fields and historical periods, as well as testimonies of the plurality of life paths and professional careers.
Considering children's literature as a heritage for identity construction, inherently characterised by the paradigm of complexity, the project aims to analyse how women’s biographies in Italian children’s and young adult literature have contributed to transforming gendered imaginary over the span of sixty years (1962-2022).
The first objective is to historically reconstruct the development of the genre of female biography, around turning points such as the "annus mirabilis" of 1962, the conflictual change of the 1970s, the "breakthrough year" of 1987, and the new heroines portrayed in fictional series in the late 1980s, as well as the publishing phenomena of the new millennium that develops relevant topics such as gender equality and environmental activism.
Secondly, since biography has predominantly represented the lives of male protagonists in Western culture, reflecting an anthropocentric framework, the research aims to propose a new ecofeminist perspective. Ecofeminism connects environmental and social issues affecting women, emphasising that both, along with their interconnection, are driven by a logic of domination imposed by Western society.
The corpus of primary sources derives from a wide-ranging historical survey of cataloging sources (OPAC SBN, LiBeR Database), manuals of the history of children's literature, and historical journals in the field. A detailed analysis was conducted on the final selection of ninety-three illustrated female biographies published in Italy between 1962 and 2022, articulated in three phases. In the first phase, a specific taxonomic analysis identified the diachronic evolution of fields of knowledge, cultural background, and historical period of the women protagonists.
In the second phase, an analysis of the narrative structure of the biographical genre was carried out, focusing on the narrator's point of view and the organisation of the knowledge conveyed by the text (chronologic-linear, organic-circular, or taxonomic-spatial).
Finally, in the third phase, a qualitative content analysis was carried out, specifically along three correlating axes of investigation on female identity: model (a way of being and acting in a predetermined way), icon (an image with recurring traits that constitutes a trend), and symbol (a unified element that generates a network of meanings). These conceptual cores, outlined with a bottom-up approach from the literature, represent different nuances of the self, and are developed, from an ecofeminist perspective, in light of the intertwining of female subjectivity with the dimensions of human otherness, non-human beings, and the environment.
The research aims to demonstrate how female biographies for young readers represent a significant source for analysing gendered imaginary and, at the same time, a meaningful historical-pedagogical research strand for reflecting on the potential of biographical narratives in constructing female identity
La statuina
No full textLa statuina, figura umana in miniatura dai molteplici significati iconici, storici e antropologici, viene eletta da Gianni Rodari a protagonista di rime e storie; si tratta soprattutto di atipiche figurine del presepe, come ne "Il pellerossa nel presepe", dove Toro Seduto interpreta, in maniera etimologica,
colui che sta, perché è stato collocato e non può venir rimosso. La statuina rodariana acquista valore specifico nel rapporto con l’Altro: in "Allarme nel presepe", infatti, lo scontro tra personaggi tradizionali della rappresentazione sacra e outsiders, come un indiano, un aviatore o una bamboletta
hippie, ha luogo in una micro arena sociale, il presepe appunto, in cui prendono corpo dinamiche di discriminazione e marginalizzazione.
Inoltre, si osserva come lo spessore metaforico di queste piccole figure sia dato dal legame con l’infanzia creatrice, in un dialogo tra piccolezza e piccolezza: i bambini, disponendo le statuine, sembrano infondere loro un soffio vitale e, in questo modo, rispecchiandosi nei giocattoli, rivolgono
la proprie cure a quell’esistenza in miniatura che loro stessi incarnano
Chiara Lubich, Meditazioni: letteratura come relazione
No full textChiara Lubich (1920–2008), although the author of 32 books published in 26 countries (178 editions, 3.2 million copies), is better known for her social engagement, as reflected in numerous awards. She began to be regarded as a literary author only in the early 2000s, and primarily from a linguistic rather than literary perspective. This article focuses on her book Meditazioni (Meditations), reconstructs its genesis by tracing the writing process from the late 1950s to her death and the 2021 critical edition, and offers a literary analysis. This reveals Lubich as a forerunner of a new conception of literature: literature as relationship – not only between author and reader, but also among subject, inspiration, and the editorial process
Chiara Lubich: A Saint for a New Global Unity
No full textIn this article the author offers an introduction to the life, thought, and impact of Chiara Lubich. He begins with a brief biographical overview and draws attention to some important features of her spiritual teaching: Jesus in the midst, Jesus Forsaken, Mary Desolate, the four nights. He draws attention to the Economy of Communion and as an expression of this spirituality in the world of business and economics, and to the figure of Chiara Luce Badano, a young adherent to the Spirituality of Unity who has been recognized as an example of how this spirituality can lead to holiness of life. The author’s judgment is that Chiara Lubich is “a saint of dialogue.
Manifesto per il museo post-etnografico
No full textThe author signes a poetic manifesto for the future of ethnographic museums, beyond colonial representational stereotypes and methodologies
Il museo come metodo. E tu, che cosa vedi?
No full textThe chapter reflects upon the current achievements, at international scale, in reference to the education of the adolescents in the museum context. Drawing upon the experience of the "Che cosa vedi?" project, developed by the author herself at the Museo del Novecento, Milan, the chapter explores the scientific horizons, the best practices and the educational methodologies more suit for working with teenagers, such as peer education and debating. "Che cosa vedi?" was focused of the work of 4 prominent Italian artists of the XX century (Lucio Fontana, Toti Scialoja, Luciano Fabro and Mario Merz)
From Canvas to Music: Mathematics as a Tool for the Composition of Jackson Time
No full textThe creation of ``Jackson time'' is a project which involves a composer, Davide Amodio, and
a mathematician, Chiara de Fabritiis.
Our common aim was to to ``translate'' a painting by Jackson Pollock, Summertime n. 9,
into a piece of music, making use of different mathematical tools to detect the quantities needed for the
composition. We were inspired by the idea that the painting itself contained some kind of inner--music,
due to the fact that Pollock's moves during the dripping on the canvas had a sort of rhythm, indeed they were often
described by witnesses as a dance.
This paper describes the mathematical background, in particular it illustrates both the analysis
of the painting which was carried out by the two of us and the choice of the mathematical techniques applied to
compute the parameters needed for the composition, which is due to the author. The reader will find a more detailed
report on the composition itself in Davide Amodio's contribution
L'edilizia popolare e ordinaria in Francia: un patrimonio da valorizzare. Il Progetto AMuLoP
No full textThe author describes the practices, methodologies and outcomes of a museum project located in the Northern area of Paris and aimed at representing the life of the working class in the aftermath of the Second World War up to the present, with a focus on immigration
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