DSpace Community:http://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/60912013-06-20T11:21:33Z2013-06-20T11:21:33ZNote sugli autorihttp://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/82172013-03-09T00:36:09Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Note sugli autori; Notices sur les collaborateurs; Notes on Contributors; Die Autoren
Type: Altro2012-01-01T00:00:00ZLes espaces ethniques «tzigane» et «juif» dans les interstices de la culture finnoise: les premiers romans de Veijo Baltzar et Daniel KatzVeivo, Harrihttp://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/82162013-03-09T00:36:08Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Les espaces ethniques «tzigane» et «juif» dans les interstices de la culture finnoise: les premiers romans de Veijo Baltzar et Daniel Katz
Authors: Veivo, Harri
Abstract: The article analyzes the construction of space and the relations between
identity and space in some novels by two finnish writers representing religious
and ethnic minorities. Daniel Katz (born in 1938) is considered as
the first Jewish author writing in Finnish. He was rapidly spotted out as a
writer with an original voice and an atypical perception of the world. Veijo
Baltzar (born in 1942) is the first Finnish gypsy writer who managed to
get published by a leading publishing house and to gain a large public outside
of his own ethnic group. Drawing on Marc Augé’s theory of nonplaces,
the article examines how Jewish and Gypsy identities in Katz’s and
Baltzar’s works are questioned in relation to the major geopolitical transformations
of the 20th century and the modernization of Finnish society in
the 1950s and 60s, showing how sub-and transnational networks connect
individuals with traditional communities engaged in a difficult process of
redefinition and adaptation. The analysis contextualizes the novels within
the tradition of Finnish literature and includes an overview of the construction
of Finnish culture in the 19th century and the codifications of
space and nation it produced.
Type: Articolo2012-01-01T00:00:00ZMolvania et Cie. Des géographies littérairesTuan, Danielehttp://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/82152013-03-09T00:36:08Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Molvania et Cie. Des géographies littéraires
Authors: Tuan, Daniele
Abstract: Western Europe has often considered its eastern counterpart as a suspicious
place populated by vampires, child-eaters and other monsters; in
other words, part and parcel of Europe but at the same time a totally alien
neighbour which still remains a fecund field of imaginary places. Plenty
of examples support this cliché: one may think of Ruritania, where
Anthony Hope’s novel is set, or of Allan Mellet’s Poldévie in The Prisoner
of Zenda, which appeared in the late 1920s on the right-wing newspaper
L’Action Française and was later drawn on by less disputable writers.
Also, other examples are provided by Hergé’s Tintin’s travels to Bordurie
and Syldavie, and by the more recent travel guide Molvania: a land
untouched by modern dentistry by the Australian trio, Santo Cialuro, Tom
Gleisner and Rob Sitch, which was published few years ago.
All of these imaginary places raise some questions about the reasons
underlying the success of these imaginary geographies, about why this
part of Europe produces such a considerable amount of imaginary lands
and the mutual influence existing between these places and “reality”.
Type: Articolo2012-01-01T00:00:00ZPlural Ghetto. Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Neill Bloemkamp’s District 9 (2009) and the crisis in the representation of spaces in post-apartheid South AfricaMari, Lorenzohttp://www.openstarts.units.it:80/dspace/handle/10077/82142013-03-09T00:36:07Z2012-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Plural Ghetto. Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow (2001), Neill Bloemkamp’s District 9 (2009) and the crisis in the representation of spaces in post-apartheid South Africa
Authors: Mari, Lorenzo
Abstract: As Phaswane Mpe’s novel Welcome to our Hillbrow (2001) convincingly
shows, the crisis suffered by post-apartheid ideological discourses is intimately
related to a crisis in the representation of spaces. As a matter of
fact, the demise of the apartheid regime of racial segregation has not lead
to a completely new spatial organization, producing, rather, a multiplicity
of boundaries which range from the apartheid model of the township to
newly constituted “migrant ghettos” such as Hillbrow, in the heart of
Johannesburg.
While South African spatiality is interrogated by Mpe’s novel though
issues such as inter-African migration, AIDS and persisting forms of prejudice
and racism, a comparison between Mpe’s novel and Neill
Bloemkamp’s blockbuster movie District 9 (2009) hints at the permanence
of corporate violence as a major cause for this political and economic
failure, by connecting it to a global scenario.
Type: Articolo2012-01-01T00:00:00Z