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Conference on Fabrizia Ramondino
15-16 January
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London,
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London
'Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa - né d'altra parte in altri paesi e città - come se appartenessi a una minoranza etnica dispersa e remota' (Fabrizia Ramondino, Star di casa, 1991)
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.
The conference will include a session of Readings from Fabrizia Ramondino's published and unpublished work, with the participation of the author's daughter. This session is funded by the John Coffin Trust Fund.
For more information on Programme, Registration, Venue, Accomodation please go to:http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=378
For more information about Fabrizia Ramondino, such as a biography, bibliography, list of critical writing on her work etc., please go to http://www.igrs.sas.ac.uk/research/CCWW%20Italian_Ramondino_bio.html
Conference sponsors: Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath; Society for Italian Studies; Association for the Study of Modern Italy.
Contact: Flo Austin ([log in to unmask])
Organisers: Adalgisa Giorgio (University of Bath [log in to unmask]), with Eliana Maestri (Universities of Bath and Oxford)
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