Women’s Writing Between the Border and the Non-Place: The Emerging Female Discourses in Italian Migrant Literature

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Yuri Lotman, Boundary, Migrant Italian Literature, Women’s Writing, Foreigner

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In the midst of the Soviet Perestroika process, Yuri Lotman wrote his reflections on the concept of boundary. Having witnessed massive migrations, forced expulsions and unprecedented ethno-geographical reconfigurations, he knew how much a border can be loaded with a cultural meaning that transcends its spatial dimensions. To be aware of this was all the more urgent at a historic time of transition, rebuilding and opening, when linguistic-cultural policies could be a means of promoting integration and accepting the “foreigner.” This contribution takes this historical and conceptual framework as its starting point and aims to analyze a cultural phenomenon of great current interest in contemporary Italian literature: the increasingly “intrusive” presence of women writers from the former colonies who choose to produce their works in a “foreign” language (Italian), using writing as a field of experimentation, cultural hybridization, and generation of a public discursive space, bearer of the female migrant gaze.

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Laura Gherlone, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Laura Gherlone has been a postdoctoral research fellow in semiotics and literature since 2016 at the Center for Language Research at National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She obtained her PhD in 2013 (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and the University of Tartu, Estonia) and then was a temporary research fellow from 2012–2015 at Sophia University Institute, Florence. Laura’s research focuses on Yuri Lotman’s interdisciplinary cultural theory―with particular attention to the late theoretical production―applied to comparative literature studies.     

Furthermore, she is a professor of Italian language and literature at the Italian Cultural Institute (the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation’s body of cultural promotion) of Córdoba, Argentina.

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2019-03-23

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Gherlone, L. (2019). Women’s Writing Between the Border and the Non-Place: The Emerging Female Discourses in Italian Migrant Literature. Bakhtiniana. Revista De Estudos Do Discurso, 14(2), Port. 6–24 / Eng. 7. Recuperado a partir de https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/39335

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