Reversing the gaze : image and text in the public debate over Italian colonialism

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Irony as a way of life : Svevo, Kierkegaard and psychoanalysis

Dejected by decades of commercial and critical failure, the Triestine author Italo Svevo found fresh inspiration for his final novel (La coscienza di Zeno, 1923) in the writings of Freud. Yet critics have always puzzled over his declared intransigence toward his new master, often attributing this ambivalence to a simple defence mechanism. But what if Svevo had been reading other works simultaneously, works that challenged and exposed the weaknesses of psychoanalytic authority? As this article argues, Svevo’s recently discovered reading of Kierkegaard’s ‘existential irony’ sheds light on his conception of the power of both narrative and the analytical process itself.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Designing Sugaropolis:digital games as a medium for conveying transnational narratives

In this paper, the authors present a case study of ‘Sugaropolis’: a two-year practice-based project that involved interdisciplinary co-design and stakeholder evaluation of two digital game prototypes. Drawing on the diverse expertise of the research team (game design and development, human geography, and transnational narratives), the paper aims to contribute to debates about the use of digital games as a medium for representing the past. With an emphasis on design-as-research, we consider how digital games can be (co-)designed to communicate complex histories and geographies in which people, objects, and resources are connected through space and time

Aortic aneurysm: awareness, causes and management

The term aneurysm describes a localised widening or ballooning of a section of an artery—an increase of greater than 50% of the normal size is defined as aneurysmal (UpChurch Jr and Criado, 2009). Aneurysmal changes can be found in any artery but are most commonly seen in the aorta (Nienaber and Fattori, 2012). Aneurysms can be asymptomatic or symptomatic, but may be life-threatening if there is sudden dissection or rupturing. This article describes the differences between abdominal and thoracic aneurysms, and explores the incidence, causes, and treatment of thoracic aneurysmal disease, highlighting the importance of vigilant postoperative care

Acts of rupture and repair: staging post-critical re-readings of colonial histories in V&A Dundee through contemporary art

This chapter uses post-critical literary theory to show how colonial histories in museums can be re-read in reparative mode, using the permanent Scottish Design Galleries of V&A Dundee as a case study. It offers a creative assessment of how contemporary works produced locally in Scotland by artists Alberta Whittle, Sekai Machache, and Swapnaa Tamhane illuminate ways in which objects on display in the Galleries can function as networked agents of repair. More broadly, it shows how art can facilitate reparative readings of museum displays through acts of mending (both conceptual and physical) but also through less conventional acts of ripping or tearing through what are seen as inadequate narrativizations of histories of empire, slavery, and racism

Thinking on foot : new Italian pilgrimages in the work of Emily Jacir, Diana Matar and Hisham Matar

Funding: Leverhulme Trust.The catalogue to Rome-based Palestinian artist Emily Jacir’s Europa exhibition of 2015 includes a short excerpt from Franco Cassano’s Southern Thought entitled “Thinking on Foot”. This article maps key elements of Cassano’s essay, namely the focus on “Mediterranean” values of slowness, contemplation, and conviviality onto readings of Italy-based works by Emily Jacir, Diana Matar and Hisham Matar, all of which provide capacious ways to rethink the idea of pilgrimage. Reflecting on the sites, sights and routes that form the basis of these works, the article shows how they represent pilgrimage as a slow form of contemporary cultural mobility, one concerned with deep contemplation of place as a response to experiences of loss, displacement and exile. Sacred journeying is experienced here through instances of micro-travel, such as walking, standing and looking, and personal transformation is charted through moments of slow thought and memory-work, as captured in multiple, mobile artistic forms.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

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La straniera as Strangers I Know: translational readings of Claudia Durastanti through actor-network theory

How do we, as practitioners of comparative literature, decide what to compare? What makes for a viable, or indeed a responsible, corpus for comparison in terms of scale and method? And which theoretical frameworks are best able to undergird localised or small-scale comparative networks? This article offers one response to these questions by opening up Claudia Durastanti’s novel La straniera to comparative networking through modes of reading in translation. It creates a critical constellation around the central text to include the author, the English translation, its translator and two other texts translated by Durastanti: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times. The idea of creating a network to unfold comparisons around a single textual artefact is informed by Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory, and by Rita Felski’s work centralising translation within such comparative networking. The goal is to see what this focus on translation (as both theme and practice) can add to our understanding of comparative links between the two versions of the same text, and of its networked relations with other texts translated by the same author and translator. The article ultimately suggests that ANT’s foregrounding of translation as a transformational force can shore up critical appreciation for cross-textual practices of linguistic-cultural deformation, interference and disruption

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