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Teacher
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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
Memory and Post-Memory in U.S. 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
The different forms of memory (historical, collective, personal, post-memorial) will be examined through a sample of representative texts of the twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary canon. The historical periodization will broadly refer to the years 1910-1945; 1945-2000; 2001-present. Special attention will be placed on questions related to the representation of trauma, the construction of ethnic identities as a result of diasporas and migrations, the construction of gender identities, the narration of collective and personal histories. These issues will be explored focusing on the specificities of literary genres (fiction, poetry, film) and phenomena such as intertextuality and intermediality.
(reference books)
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Norton Critical Edition, 2015.
Edgar Lee Masters, The Spoon River Anthology, ed. Fernanda Pivano (parallel Italian translation), Einaudi, 2014.
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, any edition.
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast, Scribner.
Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory. An Autobiography Revisited, Penguin.
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, any edition.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, any edition.
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, Penguin.
Toni Morrison, Beloved, Penguin.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close, qualunque edizione.
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