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Where are you from?
When a girl is asked where shes from - where she's really from - none of her answers seems to be the right one. Unsure about how to reply, she turns to her loving abuelo for help. He doesn't give her the response she expects. She gets an even better one.
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Pezzettino
Little Pezzettino is so small he's convinced he must be a piece of somebody else. A wise man helps him discover the truth.
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Comedy: American Style
Comedy: American Style,Jessie Redmon Fauset's fourth and final novel, recounts the tragic tale of a family's destructionùthe story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage. Originally published in 1933, this intense narrative stands the test of time and continues to raise compelling, disturbing, and still contemporary themes of color prejudice and racial self-hatred. Several of today's bestselling novelists echo subject matter first visited in Fauset's commanding work, which overflows with rich, vivid, and complex characters who explore questions of color, passing, and black identity.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson's introduction places this literary classic in both the new modernist and transatlantic contexts and will be embraced by those interested in earlytwentieth-century women writers, novels about passing, the Harlem Renaissance, the black/white divide, and diaspora studies. Selected essays and poems penned by Fauset are also included, among them \"Yarrow Revisited\" and \"Oriflamme,\" which help highlight the full canon of her extraordinary contribution to literature and provide contextual background to the novel.
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The power of fiction and its controversies in Azar Nafisi’s portrayals of a new compliant nationality
According to Anderson’s positions on nation and nationalism as cultural artifacts, Azar Nafisi’s literary memoirs show a controversial case study, focused on the ambiguities of the exile discourse and of the so-called «imaginative knowledge». Through the lens of a recurring celebration of Western myths of freedom, a series of stereotypes and paradoxes will be examined, in relation to the censorship experienced by the author under the Islamic Republic of Iran. Moreover, Nafisi’s juxtaposition of political and literary perspectives will be shown as an ambivalent narrative strategy, despite her search for a true self without any ideological engagement. In the end, the explored duality between oriented dissertations and pure imaginative recreations will enable to reconsider Nafisi’s memoirs as committed depictions of a Westernized national legacy.
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Blèud and magick
A fourteen-year-old girl discovers she has unusual abilities and learns that she was born in another world from the ashes of an evil shadow lord.
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L’autore (quasi)-personaggio e altre identità mutevoli nella prosa romena postmodernista
Presenterò in questo saggio alcuni aspetti che definiscono il personaggio nella letteratura romena degli anni ’80, ’90 del Novecento e dei primi anni 2000, ovvero il protagonista romanzesco che parla soprattutto in prima persona, anzitutto all’interno del paradigma letterario creato in seno al postmodernismo romeno, che è stato il modello più innovativo, interessante e produttivo nella prosa degli ultimi decenni in Romania. Nel panorama della letteratura romena sul finire del Novecento, dominata dalla narrativa che si ispira alla biografia di chi scrive, l’analisi dell’homo fictus presuppone anche l’approfondimento di altre nozioni connesse alla costruzione narrativa e al rapporto che si stabilisce fra realtà e finzione. Nei testi esaminati nel saggio saranno indicati alcuni di questi nessi, dapprima nella prosa di Mircea Cărtărescu e in modo più sintetico in taluni romanzi e racconti di Matei Vişniec e di Ştefan Agopian. Ho privilegiato il personaggio-autore o meglio l’autore-personaggio, ma si potrà notare che tale binomio si carica di valenze molteplici e di sfumature che rendono meno certo e un po’ sfuggente agli occhi del lettore lo statuto della medesima coppia di categorie critico-letterarie.
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