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Home, mem­o­ry and belong­ing in Ital­ian post­colo­nial lit­er­a­ture
This book exam­ines the mean­ing of home through the inves­ti­ga­tion of a series of pub­lic and pri­vate spaces recur­rent in Ital­ian post­colo­nial lit­er­a­ture. The chap­ters, by respec­tive­ly con­sid­er­ing Ter­mi­ni train sta­tion in Rome, phone cen­tres, the con­do­mini­um, and the pri­vate spaces of the bath­room and the bed­room, inves­ti­gate how migrant char­ac­ters inhab­it those places and turn them into famil­iar spaces of belong­ing. Home, Mem­o­ry and Belong­ing in Ital­ian Post­colo­nial Lit­er­a­ture sug­gests “home spaces” as a pos­si­ble lens to exam­ine these spe­cif­ic places and a series of prac­tices enact­ed by their inhab­i­tants in order to feel at home. Draw­ing on a wide array of sources, this book focus­es on the role played by mem­o­ry in cre­at­ing transna­tion­al con­nec­tions between present and past loca­tions and on how these con­nec­tions shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ iden­ti­ty.
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Con­tem­po­rary French and fran­coph­o­ne futur­is­tic nov­els: the long­ing to be writ­ten and its refusal
This book sheds a new light on the metafic­tion­al aspects of futur­is­tic and sci­ence fic­tion nov­els, at the cross­roads of infor­ma­tion and media stud­ies, pos­si­ble worlds the­o­ries applied to cog­ni­tive nar­ra­tol­ogy, ques­tions relat­ed to the crit­i­cism of post-human­i­ty, and, more broad­ly, con­tem­po­rary French and Fran­coph­o­ne lit­er­a­ture. It exam­ines the fic­tion­al minds of char­ac­ters and their con­cep­tions of resis­tance to the antic­i­pat­ed worlds they inhab­it, par­tic­u­lar­ly in nov­els by Pierre Bor­dage, Marie Dar­rieussecq, Michel Houelle­becq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volo­dine, and Élis­a­beth Vonar­burg. It also explores how cor­po­ral pos­tures serve as a matrix for philo­soph­i­cal quests in nov­els by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Dama­sio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specif­i­cal­ly, from the fic­tion­al read­ers’ points of view, it pro­vides a crit­i­cal approach to the mytholo­gies of writ­ing, in the wake of the French philo­soph­i­cal tales by authors includ­ing Cyra­no de Berg­er­ac and Voltaire, to ques­tion the tra­di­tion­al­ly expressed for­mu­la­tions of the mytholo­gies of writ­ing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a human­i­ty with­in its lim­its.
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