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CALL FOR PAPERS - “Negli archivi e per le strade: il ‘ritorno al reale’ nella narrativa italiana di inizio millennio”

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Salvatore Bancheri <[log in to unmask]>

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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies

CALL FOR PAPERS



Convegno

“Negli archivi e per le strade: il ‘ritorno al reale’ nella narrativa
italiana di inizio millennio”



University of Toronto, 7-8 maggio 2010

Organizzatore: Luca Somigli

([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)



Nel dibattito critico sulla narrativa contemporanea è ricomparsa con
forza la questione del rapporto tra letteratura e realtà. In saggi e
riviste (ricordiamo, a mo’ di esempio, il numero speciale di /Allegoria/
curato nel 2008 da Raffaele Donnarumma o il saggio di Alberto Casadei
/Stile e tradizione nel romanzo contemporaneo/, del 2007), uno degli
elementi caratterizzanti la narrativa italiana di questo scorcio di
millennio è stato individuato proprio nel tentativo di restituire ad
essa la funzione di articolare una interpretazione ed una critica della
realtà sociale. Per dirla con Wu Ming 1 (ma il discorso naturalmente
vale non solo per gli autori raggruppati sotto l’etichetta di /New
Italian Epic/),  ciò che accomuna un gran numero di scrittori
contemporanei è “un desiderio feroce che ogni volta li riporta agli
archivi, o per strada, o dove archivi e strada coincidono” – laddove
l’archivio e la strada vengono ad assumere la funzione di luoghi-simbolo
del “ritorno al reale”, sia che esso si configuri come necessità di fare
i conti con i numerosi angoli bui della storia italiana più o meno
recente, sia che risponda invece al desiderio di dare forma e di
comprendere una società i cui tradizionali punti di riferimento
culturali, politici e sociali hanno subito radicali trasformazioni. Ma
nell’epoca dei “reality show”, è evidente che “realtà” è un termine
estremamente ambiguo, da maneggiare con grande attenzione, né può del
tutto venire messa da parte la lezione del post-modernismo riguardo alla
natura mediata (e mediatica) del rapporto tra soggetto e realtà
materiale. In questo contesto, il convegno si propone di tentare un
bilancio critico delle tendenze della narrativa degli ultimi dieci anni.



Alcuni dei temi che verranno affrontati nel convegno:

– Forme ibride tra narrativa e saggistica

– La New Italian Epic

– Vantaggi e limiti della narrativa di genere

– La narrativa dei nuovi italiani

– I collettivi di scrittura

– La scrittura nell’era di internet

– Morte e vita postuma del post-moderno

– La letteratura e i mass-media

– La narrativa che racconta il “sociale” (immigrazione, mondo del
lavoro, politica…)



Le lingue del convegno sono l’italiano e l’inglese. Le proposte di
comunicazione, comprendenti titolo, abstract (c. 250 parole), e un breve
curriculum, dovranno essere inviate *entro il 15 gennaio 2010* al
responsabile del convegno, Prof. Luca Somigli ([log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)

CALL FOR PAPERS

“In the Archives and on the Streets: The ‘Return to the Real’ in the
Italian Fiction of the New Millennium”

University of Toronto, 7-8 May 2010

Organizer: Luca Somigli

([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>)



The question of the relationship between literature and reality has
resurfaced with great intensity in the critical debate on contemporary
fiction. Several studies, for instance the special issue of /Allegoria/
edited by Raffaele Donnarumma in 2008 or Alberto Casadei’s 2007 volume
/Stile e tradizione nel romanzo contemporaneo/, have identified one of
the characteristic features of contemporary Italian fiction in its
attempt to restore to literature the function of interpreting and
providing a critical perspective on social reality. To borrow the words
of Wu Ming I, which of course apply also to authors not grouped under
the label “/New Italian Epic/,” what many contemporary writers share is
a “ferocious desire that keeps bringing them back to the archives and to
the streets, or to where the archives and the streets coincide.” The
archives and the streets thus come to assume the function of symbolic
sites of the “return to the real,” whether this takes the form of
investigating the numerous dark corners of recent or remote Italian
history, or it responds to the desire to give form to and to understand
a society whose traditional points of reference – cultural, political
and social – have been radically transformed. But in the age of “reality
shows,” it is evident that “reality” is an extremely ambiguous term to
be handled with great care. It is also evident that the lesson of
post-modernism regarding the mediated (and mass-mediatic) nature of the
relationship between the individual and material reality cannot be
altogether ignored. In this context, the conference proposes to attempt
a critical overview of the narrative trends of the past decade.



Some of the topics to be addressed at the conference may include:

– Hybrid forms between narrative and essayism

– The New Italian Epic

– Advantages and limitations of genre literature

– The narrative of the new Italians

– Writing collectives

– Writing in the age of the internet

– The death and posthumous life of post-modernism

– Literature and mass media

– Fiction that represents the “social” (immigration, the workplace,
politics, etc...)



The languages of the conference are Italian and English. Proposals,
including title, abstract (approx. 250 words), and a brief c.v. should
be submitted by *15 January 2010* to the conference organizer, Prof.
Luca Somigli ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>).







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