Il soggetto della conferenza mi sembra interessante. Magari eviterei di bollare come patologica l`identita` gay, lesbica o transgender. Patologica e` semmai la crescente omofobia con cui quotidianamente conviviamo in ogni ambiente e livello.
Cordialmente,
Massimiliano Chiamenti
The topic of the conference is that of Literary Transvestism, a field of research that endeavours to shed some light on the reasons why some writers decide to use a narrative voice that belongs to the opposite sex. From the search for their own individual style and niche within the Literary Tradition as in Cesare Pavese's La bella estate, to by trying to penetrate the psyche of the members of the opposite sex as in Alberto Moravia La romana , or by transvesting their voice in a more pathological wish to 'pass' for a member of the opposite sex, with its possible fetishistic reasons/effects, as in lesbian or gay literature.
The Conference explores the transvestite narratives of a range of Italian writers, from the Mediaeval, through to Renaissance, up until modern contemporary Italian writers.