AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL
WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Provisional Programme
AISCLI SUMMER SCHOOL ON
WORLD CULTURES & LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
15-20 SEPTEMBER 2014
Sala Lauree del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne- Università degli Studi di Torino
Via Verdi 10 - secondo piano
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LECTURES |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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10.00-11.30 |
ROGER
BROMLEY ‘Magic Negro’, Saint or Comrade: Representations of Nelson Mandela in Film |
ROGER
BROMLEY Lost and Found in Translation: Displacement and Belonging in three recent novels |
CHRISTA
KNELLWOLF KING Ideas of Belonging in Alexis Wright's Novel Carpentaria |
DONATELLA BADIN Sebastian Barry's Novels and Plays: Questioning De-Colonization from the Point of View of the Marginalized |
ANDREA CAROSSO Human and Civil Rights in the US after 9-11 |
ROBERTA CIMAROSTI Literacy stories from the post/colonial world |
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BREAK |
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11.45-13.00
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SERENELLA IOVINO Ecocriticism and Post-Humanities: Ethics, Environment, and Texual Materialities |
MARIA
PAOLA GUARDUCCI Gendered landscape/landskap in South African poetry |
MICHELA BORZAGA Things-Tales & New Ethical ‘Vibrant Matters’ |
GIULIA D’AGOSTINI Citizenship and Human Rights in Contemporary Nigerian Literature |
NICOLETTA VALLORANI The Middle Ground. Visions of Everyday life in the State of Israel & Palestine |
MARIA CONCETTA COSTANTINI The Artist's Role
according to Ben Okri |
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SEMINARS/WORKSHOPS |
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14.30–16.00 |
RADHIKA MOHANRAM The Indian Partition and its Discontent |
LORENZO MARI Road to Nowhere. Somalia's Toxic Archives + Documentary |
PAOLA DELLA VALLE Indigenous Degrowth versus Western Capitalism: Negotiating Notions of Development in New Zealand Literature |
NICOLETTA VALLORANI After the War. Tony
Harrison’s The Shadow of Hiroshima & David Peace’s Occupied City |
ALESSANDRO VESCOVI Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus: whos who in The Calcutta Chromosome |
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16.30-18.00 |
LUISA PERCOPO From Dreamtime to Screen: Australian Indigenous Filmaking |
CARMEN CONCILIO F.L.O.W. by Irena Salina (Documentary) |
ESTERINO ADAMI The Shape of Things to Come: Bodies and the Environment in Indian Science Fiction |
PIER PAOLO PICIUCCO Drama as an Instrument to Fight Political Segregation: Athol Fugard's Anti-Apartheid Theatre |
PAOLA BRUSASCO Beyond Translation Studies? |
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| 18.00-19.15 | IRENE DE ANGELIS Green Line in the Poetry of Derek Mahon | |||||
LECTURES/ACADEMICS
Prof. Esterino Adami (University of Turin, I)
“The shape of things to come: bodies and the environment in Indian science fiction”
Prof. Donatella Badin (University of Turin, I)
“Sebastian Barry's Novels and Plays: Questioning De-Colonization from the Point of View of the Marginalized.”
Prof. Michela Borzaga (University of Vienna, A)
“Things-Tales & New Ethical ‘Vibrant Matters’ (in D. Galgut, A. Brink, I Vladislavic)”
Prof. Roger Bromley (University of Nottingham, UK)
“‘Magic Negro’, Saint or Comrade: Representations of Nelson Mandela in Film”
“Lost
and Found in Translation: Displacement and Belonging in three recent
novels (by No Violet Bulawayo, Teju Cole, Chimamanda Adichie)”
Prof. Paola Brusasco (University of Turin, I)
“Beyond Translation Studies?”
Prof. Andrea Carosso (University of Turin, I)
"Human and Civil Rights in the US after 9-11"
Prof. Roberta Cimarosti (University of Venice, I)
“Literacy stories from the post/colonial world”
Prof. Carmen Concilio (University of Turin, I)
“ F.L.O.W. by Irena Salina”
Prof. Maria Concetta Costantini (University of Pescara, I)
“Beyond Postcolonialism: The Artist's Role according to Ben Okri”
Prof. Giulia D’Agostini (University of Padua, I)
“Citizenship and Human Rights in Contemporary Nigerian Literature”
Prof.ssa Irene De Angelis (
"The
Green Line in the Poetry of Derek Mahon"
Prof. Paola Della Valle (University of Turin, I )
“Indigenous Degrowth versus Western Capitalism: Negotiating Notions of Development in New Zealand Literature”
Prof. Maria Paola Guarducci (University of Rome 3, I)
“Gendered landscape/landskap in South African Poetry”
Prof. Christa Knellwolf King (University of Vienna, A)
“Ideas of Belonging in Alexis Wright's Novel Carpentaria”
Prof. Lorenzo Mari (University of Bologna, I)
“Road to Nowhere. Somalia's Toxic Archives”
Prof. Radhika Mohanram (University of Cardiff, UK)
“The Indian Partition and its Discontent”
Prof. Serenella Iovino (University of Turin, I)
“Ecocriticism and Post-Humanities: Ethics, Environment, and Texual Materialities”
Prof. Luisa Percopo (University of Cagliari, I)
“From Dreamtime to Screen: Australian Indigenous Filmaking”
Prof. Pier Paolo Piciucco (University of Turin, I)
“Drama as an Instrument to Fight Political Segregation: Athol Fugard's Anti-Apartheid Theatre”
Prof. Francesca Terrenato (University of “La Sapienza”, Rome, I)
“Gendered landscape/landskap in South African Poetry”
Prof. Nicoletta Vallorani (University of Milan, I) (DOCUCITY, UNIMI www.docucity.unimi.it)
___After the War. Tony Harrison’s The Shadow of Hiroshima & David Peace’s Occupied City
___The Middle Ground. Visions of Everyday life in the State of Israel & Palestine
Prof. Alessandro Vescovi (University of Milan, I)
“Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vectus: whos who in The Calcutta Chromosome”
PROGRAMME READING LIST
Required readings:
Chris Abani, Becoming Abigail, (any edition)
Elleke Boehmer, Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2008
Amitav Ghosh, The Calcutta Chromosome. A Novel of Fever, Delirium and Discovery, (any edition).
Padmanabhan Manjula, Escape, Picador, 2008
Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free, London: Phoenix House, 1997
Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, NSW Australia: Giramondo, 2006
Nuruddin Farah, Crossbones (any edition)
Excerpts from these works will be provided beforehand:
Tony Harrison, The Shadow of Hiroshima, London: Faber, 1995
David Peace, Occupied City, London: Faber, 2009
At least one in the following group
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun, London: Harper Collins, 2009
____________, Americanah, (any edition).
No Violet Bulawayo, We Need New Names, London: Chatto & Windus, 2013
Teju Cole, Open City, London: Faber & Faber, 2011
At least one of the following texts
Barry Sebastian, On Canaan’s Side, London: Faber and Faber, 2011
_____________, The Secret Scripture, London: Faber and Faber, 2008
At least one of the following texts
Galgut Damon, The Impostor: A Novel, (any edition)
Brink André, The rights of desire, (any edition)
Vladislavic Ivan, The Restless Supermarket , (any edition)
___________, The Exploded View, (any edition)
At least one of the two following texts
Padmanabhan, Manjula, (2008) Escape. New Delhi: Picador India.
____________, (2003) Harvest. London: Aurora Press.
At least one of the following texts
Achebe, Chinua. The Education of a British-Protected Child. London: Penguin, 2010. Print.
Adichie, C. Ngozi. “The Headstrong Historian.” The Thing Around Your Neck. London: Fourth Estate, 2009. 198-218. Print.
Coetzee, J.M. Boyood. Scenes of Provincial Life. London: Vintage, 1998. Print.
__________,. Youth. London: Vintage, 2003. Print.
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’. Dreams in Time of War. A Childhood’s Memoir. London: Vintage, 2011. Print.
__________,. Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing. New York: Columbia UP, 2012. Print.
Nunan, David and Julie Choi. Language and Culture. Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity. New York: Routledge, 2010. Print.
Phillips, Caryl. “A Life in Ten Chapter.” Colour Me English. New York: The New Press, 2011. 107-112. Print.
