Rivista | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Fascicolo | 54 | 2020
Articolo | Le trappole della testimonianza
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
- Lucio De Capitani - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
- Elena Sbrojavacca - Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Venezia - email orcid profile
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.
Presentato: 11 Settembre 2020 | Accettato: 01 Ottobre 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: it
Keywords Alessandro Leogrande • Elvira Mujčić • Representation • Postcolonial Custodianship • Refugee Tales • Refugees and Literature
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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 |
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De Capitani Lucio |
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dc.contributor.author |
Sbrojavacca Elena |
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dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Articolo |
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dc.language.iso |
it |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2020/54/le-trappole-della-testimonianza/ |
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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. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 54 | Settembre 2020 |
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dc.issued |
2020-12-22 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2020-10-01 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2020-09-11 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2499-1562 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOc/2499-1562/2020/54/002 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Alessandro Leogrande |
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dc.subject |
Alessandro Leogrande |
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dc.subject |
Elvira Mujčić |
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dc.subject |
Elvira Mujčić |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial Custodianship |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial Custodianship |
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dc.subject |
Refugee Tales |
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dc.subject |
Refugee Tales |
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dc.subject |
Refugees and Literature |
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dc.subject |
Refugees and Literature |
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dc.subject |
Representation |
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dc.subject |
Representation |
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