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Narratives of Displacement: The Challenges of Motherhood and Mothering in semi-fictional works by Laura Pariani, Mary Melfi, and Donatella Di Pierantonio
This article analyses the representation of the impact of migration on family dynamics in three autobiographical works: Laura Pariani’s Il piatto dell’angelo (2013), Mary Melfi’s Italy Revisited. Conversations with my Mother (2009), and Antonella Di Pietrantonio’s Mia madre è un fiume (2011). All three authors were directly or indirectly affected by the wave of emigration that took place in Italy between the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Pariani extends her observations to the present by focusing also on those South American women who are currently moving to Italy to work as cares for old people, often leaving their families behind. Motherhood and mothering are central themes in all three books. These works problematise the patriarchal notion of motherhood and highlight the need to move towards alternative concepts of motherhood that do not imply the subordination of women. Additionally, this article offers a reflection on the role that creative writing can play in challenging some of the most engrained stereotypes, such as those of the good mother versus the bad mother, partially related to our Christian tradition. Building on Podnieks and O’Reilly’s notion of “maternal texts” (1-2), this article argues that through fiction women are less inhibited in exploring the thornier aspects of motherhood as a social construction than they seem to be in everyday life.
The Essence and the Margin
With the expansion of the EU and calls for a European constitution, the question of a common European identity has become increasingly pressing in recent times. However, in the face of diverse national and regional traditions - and the absence of an obvious European cultural imaginary - the forging of a strong sense of European identity proves problematic. This volume brings together case studies of national and regional images from across Europe, which together suggest emerging patterns of identification within contemporary Europe - patterns which may not necessarily amount to a European 'identity', but rather to a European 'mode' of identification. The chronological structure of the volume demonstrates the increasingly problematic nature of national collective memories and past imaginaries in light of emergent marginal voices and images, and suggests that it is both from beyond and within the national paradigm that new challenges are now reshaping the cultural imaginary of European communities. Focusing on cultural images within film, literature, national narratives and myths, museum exhibitions and architecture, this volume is of interest to a wide variety of disciplines in the humanities, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to questions of cultural memory and identity formation.
Desenvolvimento de Betão Auto-Compactável com Baixo Teor de Cimento Aplicado a Estruturas Pré-Esforçadas
Betões auto-compactáveis devem apresentar simultaneamente fluidez e coesão, sem a presença de exsudação e segregação. Essas características necessárias ao estado estado fresco, geralmente, são possíveis somente mediante altos teores de finos e consequentemente, maior consumo de cimento. A consolidação desse tipo de betão em indústrias de pré-fabricados e em estruturas pré-esforçadas tem instigado a busca de soluções para reduzir o consumo de cimento e emissões de CO2, tendo em vista que a indústria cimenteira é responsável por 5% a 7% das emissões globais de gases de efeito estufa. Visando uma contribuição ao meio ambiente, esta pesquisa verificou a viabilidade técnica e econômica do betão auto-compactável com baixo consumo de cimento. Ensaios em pastas foram essenciais para determinação do teor de adição mineral e superplastificante empregados, para que posteriormente, fossem realizados ensaios no estado fresco e endurecido do betão, tais como espalhamento e resistência à compressão axial, respectivamente. Foram analisadas nove composições com o consumo de cimento reduzido, das quais apenas três apresentaram bons resultados no estado fresco. As relações água/cimento e agregados miúdo/grosso foram mantidas constantes, enquanto que o consumo de cimento variou entre 271,79 kg/m3 e 299,66 kg/m3, a relação sílica de fumo/cimento variou entre 5 e 15% e a relação superplastificante/cimento variou entre 0,1 e 0,5%. Os resultados apresentaram que o aumento do uso da sílica de fumo prejudica as propriedades no estado fresco, contribui com aquelas no estado endurecido e encarece o betão, devido principalmente ao fato de Portugal não possuir indústrias que produzam - como subproduto - a sílica. Já em relação ao consumo de cimento, os resultados foram bastante promissores, pois conclui-se que é viável a produção de betões auto-compactáveis com consumos inferiores a 300 kg/m3 com garantia da qualidade de suas propriedades mecânicas e reológicas, além de uma redução das emissão de CO2 em relação aos betões convencionais.