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The Somali Within

Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

By: Brioni Simone

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The Somali Within

Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

By: Brioni Simone

The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960. Italy is also among the destination countries of the Somali diaspora, which increased in 1991 after civil war. Nonetheless, this colonial and postcolonial cultural encounter has often been neglected. Critically evaluating Gilles Deleuze and F?x Guattari?s concept of ?minor literature?, as well as drawing on postcolonial literary studies, The Somali Within analyses the processes of linguistic and cultural translation and self-translation, the political engagement with race, gender, class and religious discrimination, and the complex strategies of belonging and unbelonging at work in the literary works in Italian by authors of Somali origins. Brioni proposes that the ?minor? Somali Italian connection might offer a major insight into the transnational dimension of contemporary ?Italian? literature and ?Somali? culture.

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1351540483

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Italian Science Fiction

The Other in Literature and Film

By: Simone Brioni,Daniele Comberiati

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Italian Science Fiction

The Other in Literature and Film

By: Simone Brioni,Daniele Comberiati

This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and Normalness. In particular, Italian Science Fiction draws upon critical race studies, postcolonial theory, and feminist studies to explore how migration, colonialism, multiculturalism, and racism have been represented in genre film and literature. Topics include the role of science fiction in constructing a national identity; the representation and self-representation of “alien” immigrants in Italy; the creation of internal “Others,” such as southerners and Roma; the intersections of gender and race discrimination; and Italian science fiction’s transnational dialogue with foreign science fiction. This book reveals that though it is arguably a minor genre in Italy, science fiction offers an innovative interpretive angle for rethinking Italian history and imagining future change in Italian society.

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3030193268

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Alice in UltraLand

By: Simone Corday

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Alice in UltraLand

By: Simone Corday

Alice takes you to the nighttime world of a burlesque theater, haunted by a banshee and alluring stripper ghosts, the scene of an exotic dancer's tragic death. Plucky stripper Alice leads an uprising of her coworkers. They travel with their ghost girlfriends to Frank Sinatra's haunted casino filled with Rat Pack era ghosts such as film siren Marilyn Monroe and Frank himself. The audacious strippers are after Mafia money hidden by the badass lover of a beautiful ghost stripper to fund their own new club. Follow Alice to a secret gated ghost community on Telegraph Hill, to haunted San Francisco and Lake Tahoe where phantoms from past centuries interact. Alice In Ultraland takes you into the strip club dressing room where dancers gossip, plot and share their obsessions to a chain of supernatural events and a surprising outcome. Will Alice and her friends prevail over their adversaries? Will Alice fulfill her fondest dreams? By turns irreverent, funny, touching and haunting, Alice In Ultraland is a ghost story like no other.

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145665294X

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The Somali Within

Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

By: Brioni Simone

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Language, Race and Belonging in ‘Minor’ Italian Literature

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Italian Science Fiction

The Other in Literature and Film

By: Simone Brioni,Daniele Comberiati

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The Other in Literature and Film

By: Simone Brioni,Daniele Comberiati

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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

By: Marie Orton,Graziella Parati,Ron Kubati

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Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives

By: Marie Orton,Graziella Parati,Ron Kubati

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives brings together creative literary works and scholarly articles. Both address the changes and challenges to identity formation in an Italy marked by the migrations, populism, nationalism, and xenophobia, and analyze diversity and the affirmation of belonging.

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The Somali Within

Language, Race and Belonging in 'Minor' Italian Literature

By: Brioni Simone

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The Somali Within

Language, Race and Belonging in 'Minor' Italian Literature

By: Brioni Simone

The recent histories of Italy and Somalia are closely linked. Italy colonized Somalia from the end of the 19th century to 1941, and held the territory by UN mandate from 1950 to 1960. Italy is also among the destination countries of the Somali diaspora, which increased in 1991 after civil war. Nonetheless, this colonial and postcolonial cultural encounter has often been neglected. Critically evaluating Gilles Deleuze and F'x Guattari's concept of 'minor literature', as well as drawing on postcolonial literary studies, The Somali Within analyses the processes of linguistic and cultural translation and self-translation, the political engagement with race, gender, class and religious discrimination, and the complex strategies of belonging and unbelonging at work in the literary works in Italian by authors of Somali origins. Brioni proposes that the 'minor' Somali Italian connection might offer a major insight into the transnational dimension of contemporary 'Italian' literature and 'Somali' culture."--Provided by publisher.

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1315085232

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Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression

By: Patrizia Sambuco

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Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression

By: Patrizia Sambuco

Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla Aleramo, La Marchesa Colombi, Giuliana Morandini, Elsa Morante, Neera, Matilde Serao, Ribka Sibhatu, Patrizia Valduga, Annie Vivanti, Laila Waida, among others; writers who in their works have manifested transgression to confinement and entrapment, either social, cultural, or professional; or who have given significance to national and transnational borders, or have employed particular narrative strategies to give voice to what often exceeds expression. Through its contributions, the volume demonstrates how Italian women writers have negotiated material as well as social and cultural boundaries, and how their literary imagination has created dimensions of boundary-crossing.

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1611477913

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Political Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Political Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.

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409

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University of Illinois Press

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0252097203

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9780252097201

Far from Mogadishu

By: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

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Far from Mogadishu

By: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

There was time when my country was the country of fairy tales, a country where every child would want to grow and play. This is the story of the author's physical and emotional journey from her war-torn homeland, Somalia. Some time after the military coup in 1969 Shirin left Mogadishu and moved to Italy to make a new life and home for herself and her family. Since then she has crossed continents and lived in several cities, facing the challenge of integrating with many different kind of society before settling in England in 2010. This book encapsulates her reflections on the Somali diaspora.

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1532804024

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Luciferinas

By: Simone Michelin

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Luciferinas

By: Simone Michelin

Retrospective of the 30 years of the work of visual artist Simone Michelin. The book focuses on the exhibition "Qualia" held at the Oi Futuro Flamengo in 2010, completed with a large number of images (many of them never published before) of works produced since 1978. "Simone Michelin has created a machine that uses a combination of micro-processors, digital counters and lasers to write on a conveyor belt. In its unflinching commitment to the real world, the installation "Qualia" -which includes unpublished statistics on drugs and crime- is far more than a mere aesthetic and sensorial experience." -Page 19. The exhibition bought the artist back to Oi Futuro Flamengo, absent since 2005.

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8578200713

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9788578200718

The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Some of the best of Simone de Brauvoir has been collected and compiled in this master book of her work. Included in this book is: Includes: The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex, On the publication of The Second Sex, interview Biography

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1506193846

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Hard Times

Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: de Beauvoir,Simone de Beauvoir

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Hard Times

Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: de Beauvoir,Simone de Beauvoir

A stellar adaptation by Charles Way, moving, thoughtful and wonderfully drawn." - What's On Stage

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Da Capo Press

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1569249555

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Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.

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392

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University of Illinois Press

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0252085906

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9780252085901

All Said and Done

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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All Said and Done

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Autobiography of French author Simone deBeauvoir.

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Paragon House Publishers

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1557785252

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9781557785251

Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and influence on the world.

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378

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029828

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9780252029820

The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir

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The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir

The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue This unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

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833

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Vintage

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030727778X

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9780307277787

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Translation of: Memoirs d'une jeune fille rangee.

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Penguin Classics

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0140183310

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9780140183313

Hard times, 1952-1962

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Hard times, 1952-1962

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Covering the years 1944 to 1952, this volume of the autobiography of legendary feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir gives us not only an intimate account of her relationship with Sartre, but also a wonderful portrait of Parisian intellectual life. During this troubled period, French intellectuals grappled with the horrors of the Holocaust, the onset of the Cold War, and the beginning of colonial wars in Vietnam and Algeria. Beauvoir weaves memorable descriptions and anecdotes about leading members of the French postwar scene, including Genet, Camus, Richard Wright, Artaud, and Cocteau, with an account of her travels in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She also gives us an unforgettable chronicle of her romance with novelist Nelson Algren and of her struggle to live as an independent woman and writer.

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Paragon House Publishers

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1557785244

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9781557785244

La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

La más celebrada obra de la escritora francesa, esta historia de un triángulo amoroso entre dos adultos y una jovencita pone al descubierto las más oscuras ambigüedades de la moral al uso. En esta impactante novela ya aparecen los grandes temas de la obra de Beauvoir: la libertad, la acción y la libertad individual

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8435015629

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9788435015622

Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.

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0252039009

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9780252039003

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