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RiCOGNIZIONI RIVISTA DI LINGUE, LETTERATURE E CULTURE MODERNE 5 • 2016 (1) DIPARTIMENTO DI UNIVERSITÀ LINGUE E LETTERATURE STRANIERE E DI TORINO CULTURE MODERNE In copertina: Kwame Nkrumah Presidential Library, render esterno by Cristian Chierici CC 79, MCA courtesy; Luogo: Volta Lake, Ghana; Anno: 2013 – in corso; Superficie: 4600m2; Progetto: Mario Cucinella Architects. COMITATO DI DIREZIONE Direttore responsabile Paolo BERTINETTI (Università di Torino) Direttore editoriale Carla MARELLO (Università di Torino) COMITATO DI REDAZIONE Pierangela ADINOLFI (Università di Torino), Alberto BARACCO (Università di Torino), Elisabetta BENIGNI (Università di Torino), María Felisa BERMEJO CALLEJA (Università di Torino), Silvano CALVETTO (Università di Torino), Gianluca COCI (Università di Torino), Elisa CORINO (Università di Torino), Peggy KATELHOEN (Università di Torino), Massimo MAURIZIO (Università di Torino), Patricia KOTTELAT (Università di Torino), Enrico LUSSO (Università di Torino), Roberto MERLO (Università di Torino), Alessandra MOLINO (Università di Torino), Daniela NELVA (Università di Torino), Matteo REI (Università di Torino) SEGRETERIA DI REDAZIONE Alberto BARACCO (Università di Torino), Gaia BERTONERI (Università di Torino), Elisa CORINO (Università di Torino), Roberto MERLO (Università di Torino), Daniela NELVA (Università di Torino), Barbara PAVETTO (Università di Torino), Matteo REI (Università di Torino) COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Ioana BOTH (Universitatea «Babeş-Bolyai», Cluj-Napoca), Suranjan DAS (Università di Calcutta), Salvador GUTIÉRREZ ORDÓÑEZ (Universidad de León), Andrea CAROSSO (Università di Torino), Emanuele CICCARELLA (Università di Torino), Thierry FONTENELLE (Translation Center for the Bodies of the European Union, Luxembourg), Natal’ja Ju. GRJAKALOVA («Puškinskij Dom», Accademia delle Scienze di San Pietroburgo), Philip HORNE (University College, London), Krystyna JAWORSKA (Università di Torino), Ada LONNI (Università di Torino), Maria Grazia MARGARITO (Università di Torino), Fernando J.B. MARTINHO (Università di Lisbona), Francine MAZIÈRE (Université Paris 13), Riccardo MORELLO (Università di Torino), Virginia PULCINI (Università di Torino), Giovanni RONCO (Università di Torino), Michael RUNDELL (Lexicography MasterClass), Elmar SCHAFROTH (Universität Düsseldorf), Mikołaj SOKOŁOWSKI (Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa), Michelguglielmo TORRI (Università di Torino), Claudia Maria TRESSO (Università di Torino), Jorge URRUTIA (Universidad «Carlos III», Madrid), Inuhiko YOMOTA (Kyoto University of Art & Design), François ZABBAL (Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris) EDITORE Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne Palazzo delle Facoltà Umanistiche Via Sant’Ottavio, 20, Torino http://www.dipartimentolingue.unito.it/ CONTATTI SITO WEB: http://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/index E-MAIL: [email protected] ISSN: 2420-7969 RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 4 • 2015 (11) SoMMARIO CrOCEVIA • Engaging Wor(l)ds in Postcolonial Studies: Human Rights, Environmental Humanities and Well-being Guest Editor: Roger BROMLEY Editors: Carmen CONCILIO & Pietro DEANDREA 9 Roger BROMLEY, Carmen CONCILIO, Pietro DEANDREA • Introduction 11 Roger BROMLEY • Out of Focus. The Migrant journey 23 Carmen CONCILIO • Water and Dams. A Political and a Lyrical Approach: Arundhati Roy and Anne Michaels 35 Roberta CIMAROSTI • Migratory Bird Takes Second Chance: Reading Heart of Darkness with Chinua Achebe, David Dabydeen, Derek Walcott, Caryl Phillips 53 Paola DELLA VALLE • Changing Notions of Wellbeing in New Zealand Literature 73 Marta CARIELLO • Female Genealogies of Place. Nation, City and Refugee Camps in Susan Muaddi Darraj’s The Inheritance of Exile 87 Nicoletta VALLORANI • Running the City. Urban Marathon as (Story)Telling 99 Pietro DEANDREA • Secret Thinker Sometimes Listening Aloud. Social Commitment in David Bowie’s Lyrics ItINERARI 113 Noemi ALFIERI • Aplicação do conceito de cânone às literaturas africanas em língua portuguesa. O caso de Angola e Yaka 123 Maria Serena FELICI • Riscrivendo la complessità. Due opere tardive di Eça de Queirós e José Saramago 131 Marianna Consiglia VERCELLINI • Pyrame et Thisbé, le mythe en musique sur la scène française du XVIIIe siècle RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 5• 2016 (1) 6 RiCOGNIZIONI 5 • 2016 (1) PaSSAGGI 145 Ashley DAWSON • Apartheid (Traduzione di Andrea CAROSSO) SeGNALI 155 Anna SPECCHIO • [report del ciclo di seminari] Problematiche traduttive ed editoriali nella traduzione letteraria: lingue vicine e lingue lontane a confronto (Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere e Culture Moderne, Torino, 4 maggio 2016) 163 Mario SEITA • Ugo CARDINALE e Alberto SINIGAGLIA (a cura di), Processo al liceo classico 167 Elisa CORINO • Il progetto europeo PETALL. Buone pratiche per l’insegnamento delle lingue straniere SoMMARIO CrOCEVIA ENGAGING WOR(L)DS IN POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES: HUMAN RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND WELL‐BEING Guest Editor: Roger BROMLEY Editors: Carmen CONCILIO & Pietro DEANDREA RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 5 • 2016 (1) RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 5• 2016 (1) INTRODUCTION Roger BROMLEY (GUEST EDITOR) Carmen CONCILIO (EDITOR) Pietro DEANDREA (EDITOR) The present issue of the monographic section of the Journal, called “CrOCEVIA”, that is crossroads, gathers contributions meant for or inspired by the past four editions of the international AISCLI Summer School, hosted by the University of Turin, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Modern Cultures. The Summer School on World Literatures in English and postcolonial studies, organized and promoted by the Italian Association for the Studies of Cultures and Literatures in English is a platform and workshop where to test, compare and disseminate the results of international academic research, and at the same time – thanks also to the students’ participation and specific interests – it helps promoting new research, ideas and projects. Amongst other topics, the School’s main concerns, normally debated within a one-week intensive course, have revolved around Human Rights, Environmental Humanities, and Well- being. Each article included here elaborates on the type of lectures offered at the School, and addresses at least one of those areas. The contributions are characterized by a strong commitment, openness to all genres, a high degree of hybridity and interdisciplinary approach, and an aspiration to connect different geographies, histories, peoples and stories. Given their shared focus, it is not surprising that many of these articles offer reflections on the concept of biopolitics. In his opening essay, Roger Bromley focuses on two graphic novels (by Shaun Tan and Maya Neyestani) and on their visual techniques meant to convey the unsettling process of re- cognition of reality involved in the experience of migrancy – an extremely appropriate issue for the name of this journal and the founding concept behind it. Carmen Concilio’s environmental contribution concentrates on the topicality of the access to water as narrated by two famous novelists, Arundhati Roy and Anne Michaels, examining their literary strategies in the face of the power-ridden question of megadams. Centred on transcultural identities, Roberta Cimarosti’s contribution studies a literary classic such as Heart of Darkness from the lens of Joseph Conrad’s migrant identity, then moving to how the novel was read (or re-written) by four contemporary postcolonial writers such as Chinua Achebe, David Dabydeen, Derek Walcott and Caryl Phillips. Paola Della Valle’s focus on New Zealand engages with a wide range of literary texts to discuss different ideas of well-being; she emphasizes the colonial bias lurking behind the image of New Zealand as the country with the world’s highest life expectancy (until the 1940s), and how the picture changed with the rise of Māori forms of cultural resistance and alternative concepts of environmental and public health. Marta Cariello approaches another marginalized people, Palestinians, and more specifically the case of Palestinian refugees: through a biopolitical perspective on the gendered and racialised body, she analyses Susan Muaddi Darraj’s short stories and their crucial crossroads between the oppressed body and inter- generational memory; in its turn, this relationship is shown as impinging on the spatial interactions between the refugee camp and the exiled Palestinian community, and on the interaction of these spaces with the urban dimension of migrant communities in the US. RiCOGNIZIONI. Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture moderne, 5 • 2016 (1) 10 Roger BROMLEY, Carmen CONCILIO, Pietro DEANDREA Nicoletta Vallorani’s contribution further develops this interest in urban spaces, in her case elaborating on the colonial implications they carry and on how they may be appropriated and re- signified (another significant connection with our journal’s title) in the dimension of the so- called ‘postcolony’; her main case study, the Ethiopian Abebe Bikila winning the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon, is analysed through the differing slants of an “Istituto Luce” historic document and a contemporary docu-film. Finally, many of the abovementioned issues re-appear in Pietro Deandrea’s reading of David Bowie’s lyrics and their concern for the dispossessed, in some cases inspired by key authors of British committed