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It contains examples of artistic products with a cross-cultural character.

Vergine giurata

Vergine giurata

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Elvira Dones
Year
2007
Tags
condizione femminile romanzo famigliare Albania burrneshë
The novel is divided into two geographically and culturally specular parts: the northern mountains of Albania, immovable in the precepts of tradition, and the USA, a space of rediscovery and liberation of identity. Gender identity, first denied and then reconquered, is the conceptual connection of the novel: Hana's rebellion against the burrneshë code serves as […]
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Rosso come una sposa

Rosso come una sposa

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Anilda Ibrahimi
Year
2008
Tags
romanzo famigliare Albania condizione femminile
Ibrahimi tells the contemporary history of Albania and the transition between monarchy and communism through the stories of four generations of women. The life of the protagonist Saba reverberates the mechanisms of the Albanian matriarchal society in an exemplary way, returning a plot that alternates particular and universal, familiar and epic. The female condition becomes […]
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White Teeth

White Teeth

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Zadie Smith
Year
2000
Tags
romanzo famigliare condizione femminile postumanesimo
Smith grafts comic tones into an epic framework to tell the cultural conflict suffered by second generation London migrants. The Jones and Iqbal families fortuitously come into contact by staging a series of cultural circumstances that give rise now to frictions now to hybridizations, now to discrepancies now to compromises. The dental metaphor that serves […]
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Mahagony

Mahagony

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Year
1987
Tags
Martinica francofonia creolizzazione
The novel interwines the stories of three characters (Gani, Maho, Mani) that make the act ofmarronnage in last two centuries’ Martinique. The marronnage is the gateway in the woods inorder to escape from the plantation’s slavery system. The multiplicity of narrativefocalizations and the multilingualism between French and creole, structure a “choraldiscourse” that rewrites Martinique’s history […]
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Tout-monde

Tout-monde

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Year
1993
Tags
creolizzazione migrazione Letteratura-mondo
In Tout-monde Glissant stages contemporary world’s creolization: the clash, the encounter, the hybridization between different languages and cultures. The stories of different characters (including the alter ego Mathieu Béluse and the same Glissant) characterized by wandering and migration, encounter themselves in spatial, stylistic and thematic common places. The déparleur (a new type of author which […]
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Sartorius. Le roman des Batoutos.

Sartorius. Le roman des Batoutos.

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Year
1999
Tags
creolizzazione migrazione Letteratura-mondo
In Sartorius (his seventh novel) Glissant invents a people, the Batoutos. They are from animaginary archipelago in the hearth of the African continent, which is “invisible as nation”.They have departed a long time ago from their territory in order to discover the world, in theresearch of Éléné!, an utopia which resume the spaces and times […]
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Ormerod

Ormerod

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Édouard Glissant
Year
2003
Tags
Martinica Letteratura-mondo utopia
In Ormerod, his last novel, Glissant rewrites Martinique’s history from colonization to contemporary, intertwining it with nowadays world process of creolization. Slavery, rebellions, plantations, become “global” events which concentrate and irradiate themselves in different spaces, times and moments. History’s rewriting also passes through the rewriting of the utopia genre as a chaotic accumulation of elements.
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Midnight’s Children

Midnight’s Children

Literary work - romanzo
Author
Salman Rushdie
Year
1981
Tags
India realismo magico postcoloniale
Winner of the Booker of Bookers Prize, Midnight’s Children is numbered among the majornovels that have allowed the postcolonial turn in Anglo-Saxon literature and criticism. The protagonist Saleem Sinai tells the story of the “midnight’s children” born in the moment ofIndian independence from Great Britain. Their multiplicity of voices, languages, identities,registers become the allegory of […]
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