Lampedusa: scritture oltre la cenere

  • Silvana Carotenuto Università "L'Orientale" di Napoli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/2279-7629/3987

Abstract

The paper reads some creative renderings of the migratory events taking place in the contemporary Mediterranean: Les Clandestines by Youssouf Amin Elalamy (2000), Trilogia del Naufragio by Lina Prosa (2013), with a reference to the video-installation Asmat–Nomi by Dagmawi Yimer (2015). Its main concern is the question of testimony, assuming the critical stand that writing participates to the witnessing of the tragic destinies of migration today by proving its own engagement in poetry and evocation. Narration, theatre and visuality become the loci of a personal and collective involvement that opens up spaces for the elaboration of human suffering and mourning, and together, for the respect of alterity that promises the advent of a different future. “Difference” comes on the stage of the article’s writing through the Derridean deconstruction of the holocaust and its ashes.

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Biografia dell'Autore

Silvana Carotenuto, Università "L'Orientale" di Napoli
Silvana Carotenuto is Associate Professor at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” where she teaches Contemporary English Literature. Her fields of research are: Deconstruction, écriture feminine, Postcolonial Studies. She directs the European Research “Performance in the Mediterranean Region”, and has created, with her researchers, the digital archive “Matriarchivio del Mediterrano” (http://www.matriarchiviomediterraneo.org/en/). Her most recent publication is ““A Kind of Paradise”: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Claim to Agency, Responsibility and Writing”, in Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction. A Classic Anthology, ed. by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Iniobong I. Uko, & Patricia T. Emenyonu (in press).
Pubblicato
2016-07-21
Fascicolo
V. 5 N. 1 (2016): Mediterraneo in polvere / Mediterranean at Large
Sezione
Articoli

Copyright (c) 2016 Silvana Carotenuto

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