please consider the following session for the AAIS/CSIS Conference, which will take place at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on April, 20-22 2017:
Organizers: Sergio Portelli (University of Malta); Roberta Cauchi-Santoro (University of Guelph); Sandra Parmegiani (University of Guelph)
Session's Chair: Sergio Portelli (University of Malta)
History may be seen as a story that is interpreted by its ‘readers’ according to their own worldview and cultural background (what Eco calls ‘encyclopedia’ in Lector in Fabula, 1979). On their part, literary rewriters of history (authors of historical novels and dramas, biographies, war diaries; translators of the above, as well as of (auto)biographies) interpret events and rewrite them according to their own ideology and poetics (see Hermans, The Manipulation of Literature, 1985; Lefevere, Translation, Rewriting and the Manipulation of Literary Fame, 1992). This process in turn affects the interpretation of their target readers, whose knowledge of thehistorical event(s) may be limited solely to a particular rewriting, without the additional knowledge of historical studies based on documentary evidence.
This panel wants to investigate the dynamics behind the reading, interpretation and rewriting of Italian history by British and American writers throughout the centuries, according to different personal, ideological and poetological agendas.
Send a 200-300-word abstract, a brief bio-bibliographical profile (no more than 150 words), and requests for AV equipment to Sergio Portelli ([log in to unmask]), Roberta Cauchi-Santoro ([log in to unmask]), Sandra Parmegiani ([log in to unmask]), by December 15, 2016.
Our joint conference, AAIS and CSIS, will take place in Columbus, Ohio, from April 20th to April 22nd, 2017.
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