3 resultados para French contemporary novel
em AMS Tesi di Dottorato - Alm@DL - Università di Bologna
Resumo:
La tesi intitolata "Dalla postmmoire alla scrittura delloblio nellopera di Sylvie Germain" si pone lobbiettivo di analizzare lopera della scrittrice francese contemporanea Sylvie Germain alla luce di alcune elaborazioni teoriche sulla dialettica memoria/oblio. Basandoci sulle principali teorie-guida relative alla memoria culturale teorizzate da Maurice Halbwachs,Pierre Nora,Tzvetan Todorov,Paul Ricoeur e Aleida Assmann,la nostra analisi si successivamente concentrata sugli studi condotti attorno al concetto di postmemory elaborato dalla studiosa americana Marianne Hirsch. Scopo di questa prospettiva critica quello di leggere l'opera germainiana come espressione di una affiliative postmemory, risultato della connessione generazionale di coloro che non hanno vissuto direttamente un trauma con la literal second generation. Attraverso un approccio interdisciplinare che ha coinvolto gli studi sulla memoria culturale in rapporto alla questione del gender, si inoltre evidenziata la specificit del ruolo rivestito dai personaggi femminili nei romanzi di Germain che assumono un peso determinante nella trasmissione della memoria individuale e collettiva, studio che ci ha permesso di sottolineare la funzione attiva svolta dalle protagoniste delle opere della scrittrice. Nella fase conclusiva sono state esaminate le opere pi recenti di Sylvie Germain pubblicate tra il 2008 e il 2011 in cui lautrice sembra avvertire la necessit di controbilanciare il peso della troppa memoria con una giusta dose di oblio. Sono state inoltre affrontate la questione della responsabilit etica e lidea di debito nei confronti della memoria familiare e collettiva: la scrittura stessa diventa cos per Germain lo strumento attraverso il quale lautrice assume il ruolo di passeuse de mmoire per le generazioni future.
Resumo:
Scopo del lavoro quello di tracciare un parallelismo tra la narrativa giapponese e angloamericana contemporanea, viste come parte di un sistema di significati che trascende la dimensione nazionale e si installa invece in una dinamica di tipo globale. Le opere letterarie prese in considerazione sono alcune fra quelle ambientate nelle due vere e proprie capitali culturali dei paesi, rispettivamente New York per gli Stati Uniti e Tky per il Giappone. Spunto di partenza dellanalisi stato il concetto di global city, formulato dalla studiosa e sociologa Saskia Sassen, che permette di mettere in relazione dal punto di vista economico, strutturale ma anche sociale le citt di New York e Tky. Tale formulazione consente infatti di ragionare in maniera motivata sullesistenza di un rapporto di flussi di scambio di tipo culturale e, parallelamente, sullacquisizione di una dimensione di tipo transnazionale di soggetti e tematiche della letteratura. In questo senso, il rapporto tra economia e globalizzazione evidenziato da Sassen pu essere paragonato a quello che intercorre tra la letteratura e la globalizzazione. Punto di snodo metodologico del lavoro rappresentato dallanalisi dello spazio urbano, esaminato sia in chiave urbanistico-architettonica che pi specificamente letteraria.
Resumo:
This study concerns the representation of space in Caribbean literature, both francophone and Anglophone and, in particular, but not only, in the martinican literature, in the works of the authors born in the island. The analysis focus on the second half of the last century, a period in which the martinican production of novels and romances increased considerably, and where the representation and the rule of space had a relevant place. So, the thesis explores the literary modalities of this representation. The work is constituted of 5 chapters and the critical and methodological approaches are both of an analytical and comparative type. The first chapter The caribbean space: geography, history and society presents the geographic context, through an analysis of the historical and political major events occurred in the Caribbean archipelago, in particular of the French Antilles, from the first colonization until the dpartementalisation. The first paragraph The colonized space: historical-political excursus the explores the history of the European colonization that marked forever the theatre of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the New World. This social situation take a long and complex process of Re-appropriation and renegotiation of the space, (second paragraph) always the space of the Other, that interest both the Antillean society and the writers universe. So, a series of questions take place in the third paragraph Landscape and identity: what is the function of space in the process of identity construction? What are the literary forms and representations of space in the Caribbean context? Could the writing be a tool of cultural identity definition, both individual and collective? The second chapter The literary representation of the Antillean space is a methodological analysis of the notions of literary space and descriptive gender. The first paragraph The literary space of and in the novel is an excursus of the theory of such critics like Blanchot, Bachelard, Genette and Greimas, and in particular the recent innovation of the 20th century; the second one Space of the Antilles, space of the writing is an attempt to apply this theory to the Antillean literary space. Finally the last paragraph Signs on the page: the symbolic places of the antillean novel landscape presents an inventory of the most recurrent antillean places (mornes, ravines, traces, cachots, En-ville,), symbols of the history and the past, described in literary works, but according to new modalities of representation. The third chapter, the core of the thesis, Re-drawing the map of the French Antilles focused the study of space representation on francophone literature, in particular on a selected works of four martinican writers, like Roland Brival, douard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphal Confiant. Through this section, a spatial evolution comes out step by step, from the first to the second paragraph, whose titles are linked together The novel space evolution: from the forest of the morne to the jungle of the ville. The virgin and uncontaminated space of the Antilles, prior to the colonisation, where the Indios lived in harmony with the nature, find a representation in both works of Brival (Le sang du roucou, Le dernier des Aloukous) and of Glissant (Le Quatrime sicle, Ormerod). The arrival of the European colonizer brings a violent and sudden metamorphosis of the originary space and landscape, together with the traditions and culture of the Carabes population. These radical changes are visible in the works of Chamoiseau (Chronique des sept misres, Texaco, Lesclave vieil homme et le molosse, Livret des villes du deuxime monde, Un dimanche au cachot) and Confiant (Le Ngre et lAmiral, Eau de Caf, Ravines du devant-jour, Ngre marron) that explore the urban space of the creole En-ville. The fourth chapter represents the 2nd step: the Anglophone novel space in the exploration of literary representation of space, through an analytical study of the works of three Anglophone writers, the 19th century Lafcadio Hearn (A Midsummer Trip To the West Indies, Two Years in the French West Indies, Youma) and the contemporary authors Derek Walcott (Omeros, Map of the New World, What the Twilight says) and Edward Kamau Brathwaite (The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy). The Anglophone voice of the Caribbean archipelago brings a very interesting contribution to the critical idea of a spatial evolution in the literary representation of space, started with francophone production: The spatial evolution goes on: from the Martiniques Sketches of Hearn to the modern bards of Caribbean archipelago is the new linked title of the two paragraphs. The fifth chapter Extended look, space shared: the Caribbean archipelago is a comparative analysis of the results achieved in the prior sections, through a dialogue between all the texts in the first paragraph Francophone and Anglophone representation of space compared: differences and analogies. The last paragraph instead is an attempt of re-negotiate the conventional notions of space and place, from a geographical and physical meaning, to the new concept of commonplace, not synonym of prejudice, but common place of sharing and dialogue. The question sets in the last paragraph The commonplaces of the physical and mental map of the Caribbean archipelago: toward a non-place? contains the critical idea of the entire thesis.
