scholarly journals Fuga e ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Joseph Pivato
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Return Trip ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Mary Di Michele ◽  
Caterina Edwards

Many Italian-Canadian authors have been stimulated to explore their dual identity after a return trip to Italy. They confront the myth of nostalgia as an emotional blind-spot to the harsh realities of past miseria and present-day conflicts in Italian society. Women writers such as Mary di Michele, Caterina Edwards, Licia Canton and Rina Cralli are particularly critical of the position of women in Italy and the whole nostalgia sentimentality promoted by Italian popular culture and music. Pasquale Verdicchio’s whole writing career has been a systematic rejection of the thematics of nostalgia.

From Blaxploitation to Black Macho

2019 ◽  
pp. 183-201
Author(s):  
Terrion L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Reality Television ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Ntozake Shange ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Black Women Writers

For commentators concerned with black cultural production in the contemporary era, there are few images more controversial than the angry black woman, particularly as it is reproduced within the confines of reality television. This chapter traces the lineage of the angry black woman back to key black feminist texts of the 1970s, arguing that the trope emerges out of a distinct sociopolitical history that was codified within both public policy and popular culture throughout the decade. Blaxploitation films became the site where black women’s anger was most visibly commodified, even as black women involved in an emergent black feminist movement worked to combat withering social commentaries that included Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s matriarchy thesis and sexist takedowns of black women writers like Ntozake Shange and Michele Wallace.

Book Reviews

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 99-128
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
The Past ◽  
Second Chance ◽  
Ethics Of Citizenship

Anne Sa’adah, Germany’s Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and DemocratizationReview by Laurence McFallsKarl-Rudolf Korte, Deutschlandpolitik in Helmut Kohls Kanzlerschaft: Regierungsstil undEntscheidungen 1982-1989. Geschichte der deutschen Einheit, Band 1Werner Weidenfeld, Aussenpolitk für die Deutsche Einheit. Geschichte der deutschen Einheit, Band 4Review by Clay ClemensWilliam A. Barbieri Jr., Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in GermanyReview by John BradyAnton Pelinka, Austria: Out of the Shadow of the PastReview by Erik WillenzRuth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of RepresentationReview by Kristin McGuireGerd Gemünden, Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination Review by Johannes von Moltke

Mutations of Heroism: The Case of the Egyptian Superheroine

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-282
Author(s):  
Mounira Soliman
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Alternative Reading

Abstract The history of heroism in Egyptian culture has mostly been perceived as a male attribute, centering on the figure of the male hero, and generally excluding figures of female heroines. In this article, I explore the representation of one type of female heroism, the rising phenomenon of the superheroine. In contrast to popular definitions of heroism connected to the superhero genre wherein heroism is perceived as an extra-terrestrial superpower, recent depictions of superheroines in Egyptian popular culture focus on representing the mundane aspect of the lives of these characters, leading to a reconceptualization of heroism. I examine three examples of superheroines by three women writers, Qahera by Deena Mohamed, Nano Volta by Hanan El-Karargy, and Lamis by Safia Baraka. I focus on the concept of ‘normalcy’ by way of reading the depiction of the three superheroine characters, arguing that the emphasis on the mundane reality of the three superheroine figures proposes an alternative reading of heroism that depends on women’s agency as it explores their potential for empowerment.

I Watussi

Modern Italy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-443
Author(s):  
David Forgacs
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
The Real ◽  
African Migrants

The article reflects on the ‘absent connection’ between the fictional Watussi of the Italian hit song of 1963 and the real Tutsi, many of whom had fled Rwanda at that time to escape violence from the ascendant Hutu majority in the last years of Belgian rule. It considers the song's long afterlife and the stubborn persistence, decades later, of comic stereotypes of ‘Africans’ in Italian popular culture despite the growing number of African migrants and their children in Italian society.

Comprehensive Overview with Blind Spot for Women

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 641-642
Author(s):  
JUDITH LONG LAWS
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
Comprehensive Overview
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