2007 / 14 Prospero. Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali

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Speciale Atti del Convegno Interdisciplinare “Transatlantici e altri bastimenti: transiti, desideri, memorie”

Roberta Gefter Wondrich
Introduzione

Parte I – Dalle leggende alla scena

Marco Piccat
Il motivo della ‘barca senza vele’ e varianti nelle letterature romanze medievali

Odile Malas
"La nef dans la tempête". La leggenda di Helsin tra dogma e realtà politica

Sara Trampuz
La pesca e i discorsi dei pescatori di Petar Hektorović: un’ecloga dalmata cinquecentesca

Sanja Roić
Barca in forma di sonetto

Gianni Ferracuti
La famosa comedia del Nuevo Mundo descubierto por Cristóbal Colón: una interpretazione critica di Lope de Vega

Gordon Poole
Scalo Marittimo di Raffaele Viviani: il Meridione come problema nazionale

Maria Mitrović
La nave sulla scena teatrale

Parte II – Europa e oltre

Béatrice Didier
Les navires d’Outre-tombe

Tiziana Goruppi
Veicoli di vita e veicoli di morte in Georges di Alexandre Dumas

Luciana Alocco
«rêve, plein de voilures et de mâtures»: vocabolario baudelairiano del viaggio per mare

Anna Zoppellari
Simenon in viaggio dentro l'Africa

Emilia Surmonte
La barque d’Œdipe di Henry Bauchau

Licia Reggiani
Humus di Fabienne Kanor: tuffarsi in mare per ritrovare le proprie radici

Arturo Larcati
Schiffe aus Papier. Zur nautischen Metaphorik im Werk von Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Alessandro Scarsella
La valigia di Karl. Metamorfosi e plagio della nave (note su Kafka, Fellini, Baricco e Spielberg)

Parte III – Dall’impero alla realtà globale

Marianna D'Ezio
Viaggiatrici britanniche verso l’India tra Sette e Ottocento: il viaggio, la nave e il mare come momenti di passaggio

Marilena Parlati
Tracing/Tracking History’s Nightmares. The Wreck of the Batavia as Australian Foundational Myth

Clara Bartocci
Speedwell, Mayflower e Arbella: vascelli verso la Terra Promessa

Cinzia Schiavini
Invisible rivers, evanescent ships: American society and the erasure of space in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man

Mirella Vallone
Dall’Abruzzo in America: transiti e memorie in Son of Italy di Pascal D’Angelo e Personal Reminiscences di Francesco Ventresca

Sabina D'Alessandro
The Stratheden and the negotiation of the East-West trajectory: identity and migration in Ahdaf Soueif’s Aisha

Michela Gandolfo
La nave come microcosmo dell’attuale realtà globale nelle teorie letterarie della postcolonialità

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    La nave come microcosmo dell’attuale realtà globale nelle teorie letterarie della postcolonialità
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    Gandolfo, Michela
    Derek Walcott wrote that “History is sea”: sailing, as a movement, goes beyond the borders and in the postcolonial narratives the transatlantic is a powerful symbol of the transnational space. The essay wants to analyse the images of the marine world, of the ocean and especially of the ship, the transatlantic as the fundamental and chronotopic figure of the postcolonial theories, particularly in relation to the delineation of a contemporary cultural and global reality as a transnational space in which take shape political and aesthetical expressions that challenge the modern conceptions on nationality, ethnicity and on cultural authenticity. The theories on postcolonialism by Paul Gilroy and Édouard Glissant are here examined. Gilroy considers the ship that moves through the archipelagos as the representation of the instability and the mutability of identities that are in perpetual development, since the ship’s movement is transversal, not linear, and it crosses the “Black Atlantic”, transmitting multicultural, hybrid ideas during its journey. Édouard Glissant is the theorist of the ‘Antillanité’ as the place of choice for the crossing of different cultures in the French-speaking Caribbean, and moves from his vision of the American and Caribbean landscape towards a broader, global identity.
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    Dall’Abruzzo in America: transiti e memorie in "Son of Italy" di Pascal D’Angelo e "Personal Reminiscences" di Francesco Ventresca
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    Vallone, Mirella
    Pascal D’Angelo and Francesco Ventresca were among the many Italians who passed through Ellis Island at the beginning of the 20th Century, and wrote about their experience in the autobiographies "Son of Italy" (1924) and "Personal Reminiscences" (1936). Cynthia Wong underlines that in those same years the phenomenon of ethnic autobiographies began. The ‘autobiographies of Americanisation’ were written by emigrants to reaffirm their identities while showing at the same time the struggle to reconcile the need to preserve one’s heritage with the desire to assimilate into the mainstream American culture. Both authors hail from the village of Introdacqua in Abruzzo, and both follow a linear path in their text: the life before emigration, the travel to America, and the conflict between the life the emigrants hoped for and reality. The essay examines the two narratives by following their similar approaches towards a shared history of loss, voyage, hard work, disillusionment, difficulties, but especially (and differently from other emigrants) of desire to be acknowledged in their openness towards ‘alterity’, trying, as both authors are, to acquire the new language, its poetics and culture. Both autobiographies become then the expression of a real cultural transition and of the capability of their authors to build bridges between different cultures and different versions of themselves.
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    Invisible rivers, evanescent ships: American society and the erasure of space in Herman Melville’s "The Confidence Man"
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    Schiavini, Cinzia
    In Herman Melville’s last novel, "The Confidence Man", space is completely absent: the action is set on a steamboat sailing down the Mississippi on Fools’ Day from Saint Louis to New Orleans, but ends without an explanation nearby Cairo. The scenario is never described, and this detail is more striking because space has always played a peculiar role in Melville’s work. Scholars have agreed upon the idea that Melville was trying to create a structure and a language that reflected his disillusionment towards the United States’ society, and, perhaps, the disappearance of the landscape from the narration is just another telling sign of the author’s set of mind. "The Confidence-Man" is Melville’s attempt to explore space and its meaning – that of the archetypical, symbolic core of the nation, rather than merely the geographical one. The archetypical significance of the ship and the river is what is explored in this analysis of "The Confidence-Man". Melville deconstructs space as he deconstructs the Con-Man: both are the sign of an American identity that is definitely lost, the signs of a broken confidence in American future.
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    "Speedwell, Mayflower e Arbella": vascelli verso la Terra Promessa
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    Bartocci, Clara
    The English ships travelling through the Atlantic during the 17th Century were not only the necessary means for trade and colonisation, but as well a kind of umbilical cord which enabled the European colonies to receive a spiritual nutrition too, through the transfer of traditions, knowledge and institutions. This connection, however, was also unsteady because of the extent of the ocean and the perils entailed in the voyage. The ocean became then a symbol of isolation, favouring the progressive differentiation of the American culture from the European one and the consolidation of new lifestyles. Thus, the ship gained the function of a privileged place in which it was possible to sign agreements that could go beyond the laws of the mainland, an isolated microcosm protected by the world’s influence. Events of this kind are narrated by the protagonist of such an endeavour, William Bradford, who decided to write the history of Plymouth, the colony he founded. The essay investigates this work, with its intention to demonstrate how the difficulty of the Pilgrims’ voyage was then rewarded with the help of God, thus proving the sanctity of the enterprise. The analysis regards as well other examples of ‘sea-deliverance narratives’, especially those relating to the three ships which have an exceptional importance for American history: 'Speedwell', 'Mayflower' and 'Arbella'. On them, significant speeches were made, which would later become foundational images of the American myths of exceptionality and democratic citizenship.
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