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2nd 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.
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