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Jo Lee Seminar - Language, memory and migration in the novels of Laura Pariani
The writings of Laura Pariani blend autobiography, fiction, official history, civic memory and oral histories into intricate representations of migration and mobility between Italy and South America. Using two of her novels, Quando Dio ballava il tango (2002) [When God Danced the Tango] and Il piatto dell鈥檃ngelo (2013) [The Angel鈥檚 Plate] the paper highlights the implications of her writing on understandings of migration in the Italian context and beyond. It will show how cultural memory and linguistic hybridity challenge monolingual and monoidentitarian myths of nationhood and how her novels force consideration of the ethical dilemma posed by globalisation and the mass movement of people in the twenty-first century.
16.00-17.00, Social Sciences A1.11
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