TransCulturale

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Alfredo Ancora,Raffaele Tumino — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bambini Talibé in Guinea Bissau: storie di famiglie e bambini

Pietro Barbetta,Alberto Merlo — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Questo saggio prende come punto di partenza le voci delle famiglie e dei bambini della Guinea Bissau, per far emergere la loro prospettiva; questo ha un duplice valore. Il primo è quello di approfondire il fenomeno dei Talibé e cercare di comprenderne la complessità. La seconda funzione della narrazione – che possiamo considerare terapeutica – consiste nell’opportunità, per le persone coinvolte, di creare un percorso di costruzione identitaria. L’articolo vuole fornire una descrizione della realtà dei bambini Talibé in Guinea Bissau partendo dalla narrazione dei bambini stessi e dei genitori coinvolti. Molti bambini vengono mandati dalle famiglie nelle Scuole Coraniche in Senegal, soprattutto a Dakar. In questi contesti, il bambino si trova spesso a dover passare la maggior parte delle sue giornate per strada a chiedere l’elemosina per poter portare una certa somma di denaro al maestro. Le ragioni che spingono i genitori ad affidare il proprio figlio a queste persone sono molte, per esempio le scarse opportunità educative presenti sul territorio guineano, le motivazioni religiose e quelle economiche. Nonostante il gran numero di bambini coinvolti, si tratta di un fenomeno poco conosciuto in Europa (Finco, 2020). Cercare di dare voce alle diverse figure coinvolte è importante per contribuire alla creazione di una narrazione che tenga conto delle diverse condizioni sociali, culturali, religiose e psicologiche.

Ciudad Juárez y violencia: una mirada de los estudiantes univerisitarios de lenguas

Camarena Ortiz Eréndira Dolores — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article is a brief overview of the perception of three groups of Mexican university students of Portuguese as a foreign language about the violence in Ciudad Juárez, state of Chihuahua in recent years. The issue of violence and migration is analyzed through class work, discourse analysis and ethnography. We present here part of the results result from qualitative research in the classroom. The objective was to investigate what are the points of view, discourses, and arguments of these students in relation to this city through a project that included readings, interviews, debates, a short essay, and the task of associating words with Ciudad Juárez.

Aiutare a trovare le parole per dirlo

Marta Castiglioni — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

While acknowledging the transformative power of the word, working with patients who speak little or do not understand the Italian language is not the only means by which to trigger processes of symbolization and resilience. This work presents the therapeutic mediation device designed for working with this particular type of user and how using a mediator-object – the artifact – to grasp the theoretical and therapeutic scope of this approach in multicultural contexts.

’Listen: Still, the Echo of Loss’. Choctaw and Irish Transcultural Engagement in the Poetry of LeAnne Howe and Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This article discusses a sequence of poems in which Choctaw writer LeAnne Howe and Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa “call and respond” to each other across history and space. It will suggest that through their willingness to listen, embrace of linguistic hybridity and determination to remain open to the nuances of history, the poems truly embody what Francine Rosenbaum describes as “transculture in narrative” (Rosenbaum 2018).

L’invenzione dell’America e l’esigenza di narrare nelle cronache delle Indie

Adrián N. Bravi — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The discovery of America and the testimonies narrated since its inception were two events born together. One would not existed without the other. A thirth element could not exist separately: the creative and immaginary reports of the chroniclers. The voyage of conquest of America is largely composed by narrative and imperial gaze of the chronicle. In this framework, the article analyzes the inseparability between discovery, testimony and narrative invention (that includes imagination too) as components that converge to build a new reality. This construction had a great impact on the theoretical definition of the features of twentieth-century Latin American literature. Invention, revision, and reconstruction of the discovery of America are historical and cultural items that resurface constantly in Latin American literature. Despite all that, novel was the only literary genre that failed to take root in the New World for three hundred years, it succeeded only after the nineteenth century.

Haruki Murakami: everyday transculturality

Wolfgang Welsch — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Expatriates – Spatriati – and the South as a Bridging “Territory of the Soul”. Interview with Mario Desiati conducted by Dagmar Reichardt

Dagmar Reichardt,Mario Desiati — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Italian Strega Prize winner 2022 Mario Desiati focuses on “the” South defined by Apulian expats as symbolic protagonists of his award-winning novel. The Spatriati stand for a chance to develop and grow.

Il ritorno del ri-mosso

Alfredo Ancora — lun, 18 dic 2023 00:00:00 +0000