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Dear colleagues,
Please find below the Call for Papers for a conference on Fabrizia
Ramondino.
I would be grateful if you could consider sending a proposal and could
publicize it among your colleagues.
Best wishes,
Adalgisa Giorgio
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Dr Adalgisa Giorgio
Department of European Studies & Modern Languages
University of Bath
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CALL FOR PAPERS
'Non sto a Napoli sicura di casa'
Conference in Memory of Fabrizia Ramondino (1936-2008)
Organised by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing
(Institute of
Germanic & Romance Studies) and the University of Bath
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
15-16 January 2010
The death of Fabrizia Ramondino in June 2008 deprived Italy of one of its most
interesting writers and of a sharp observer and commentator of the
cultural and political
changes Italy has undergone in the past fifty years.
After an intense experience of social commitment and political
militancy in Naples in the
1970s, Fabrizia Ramondino devoted herself to writing and has left a
varied corpus of
works which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays,
travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological,
cultural and
linguistic comment.
Between the publication of her first and last novels, Althenópis
(1981) and La Via
(2008), Ramondino continued to probe the question of identity and its
foundations in
language, family, class, history, geography and the environment.
Gender remained an
important focus of her work throughout her career.
Proposals of papers are invited on all aspects of Ramondino's oeuvre.
Suggested topics may include but are not limited to:
" blood, symbolic and literary genealogies
" identity, belonging and globalization
" Neapolitan vs Italian vs European identity
" representations of Naples and transformations of the South
" political commitment and literature
" literal and metaphorical journeys
" gender and family relations
" childhood and adolescence
" language and dialect
" literary genres
" orality and writing
" links and comparisons with other writers.
Proposals of 250 words, in Italian or English, should reach the
conference organiser,
Adalgisa Giorgio ([log in to unmask]) by 1st August 2009. However,
the organizer can be
contacted to discuss ideas and suggestions for papers before this date.
Details of the conference will be placed on the CCWW website later in
the summer.
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Dr Adalgisa Giorgio
Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
University of Bath
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
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