Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 54 | 2020
Research Article | Le trappole della testimonianza
Abstract
In the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, the ethical imperative to write about the predicament of refugees has become hard to ignore. However, many representational pitfalls are involved in this process. Can refugees relate their story in a way that does not trap them into the role of victims? Can authors that choose to tell these stories avoid appropriating these experiences? This article tackles these issues in a comparative fashion, taking its case studies and theoretical insights from both the Italian and British cultural context, focusing on Elvira Mujčić’s Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato, Alessandro Leogrande’s La frontiera, and the short stories collections Refugee Tales.
Submitted: Sept. 11, 2020 | Accepted: Oct. 1, 2020 | Published Dec. 22, 2020 | Language: it
Keywords Refugee Tales • Elvira Mujčić • Refugees and Literature • Alessandro Leogrande • Postcolonial Custodianship • Representation
Copyright © 2020 Lucio De Capitani, Elena Sbrojavacca. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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ECF_article_3787 |
dc.title |
Le trappole della testimonianza. La rappresentazione dei rifugiati in Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato di Elvira Mujčić, La frontiera di Alessandro Leogrande e le antologie di Refugee Tales |
dc.contributor.author |
De Capitani Lucio |
dc.contributor.author |
Sbrojavacca Elena |
dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
dc.type |
Research Article |
dc.language.iso |
it |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2020/54/le-trappole-della-testimonianza/ |
dc.description.abstract |
In the wake of the so-called refugee crisis, the ethical imperative to write about the predicament of refugees has become hard to ignore. However, many representational pitfalls are involved in this process. Can refugees relate their story in a way that does not trap them into the role of victims? Can authors that choose to tell these stories avoid appropriating these experiences? This article tackles these issues in a comparative fashion, taking its case studies and theoretical insights from both the Italian and British cultural context, focusing on Elvira Mujčić’s Consigli per essere un bravo immigrato, Alessandro Leogrande’s La frontiera, and the short stories collections Refugee Tales. |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 54 | September 2020 |
dc.issued |
2020-12-22 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2020-10-01 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2020-09-11 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-1562 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2020/54/002 |
dc.peer-review |
yes |
dc.subject |
Alessandro Leogrande |
dc.subject |
Alessandro Leogrande |
dc.subject |
Elvira Mujčić |
dc.subject |
Elvira Mujčić |
dc.subject |
Postcolonial Custodianship |
dc.subject |
Postcolonial Custodianship |
dc.subject |
Refugee Tales |
dc.subject |
Refugee Tales |
dc.subject |
Refugees and Literature |
dc.subject |
Refugees and Literature |
dc.subject |
Representation |
dc.subject |
Representation |
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