• Postcolonial Mappae Mundi

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    by John Thieme

    After a brief consideration of some of the ways in which cartography has operated through the ages, this article discusses the maps mentioned in the first part of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and references to maps in the work of three postcolonial writers: Jamaica Kincaid, Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott. It suggests that the postcolonial texts display a distinctive cartographical vision, which rethinks the way spaces are imaginatively constructed. Different though they are from one another, the three postcolonial writers considered particularly foreground the personal cognitive aspects of mapping and, explicitly or implicitly, challenge the totalizing, supposedly authoritative versions of world geography that characterize maps of Empire and Western cartography more generally.

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  • The Fiction of Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi

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    by Vimala Rama Rao

    Bolwar Mahamad Kunhi is a distinctive voice in Kannada writing of the last quarter century. What is remarkable about his writing is that he writes as a locally rooted Indian who has an intimate knowledge of his background, the Muslim way of life. What his fiction brings out is that people need an anchor in life and they look to religion for sustenance. Bolwar has an equally close knowledge of the way traditional Brahmins live and his portrayal of the inter-face between completely different ways of life is startlingly true and refreshing.

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  • Slovenian Diasporic Literature: The Case of Jože Žohar

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    by Igor Maver

    The article thematically and stylistically analyzes the verse written by the Slovenian migrant poet from Australia, Jože Žohar, in the Slovenian language, which has only been published in Slovenia. The poet shows a great gift for poetic experimentation and tries to reconcile in himself the dividedness between the two “Homes”, Slovenia and Australia.

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  • Le cose fuori di sé. La metafisica relazionale di Raimon Panikkar come creazione

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    by Paolo Calabrò

    Even if the Raimond Panikkar’s relationship-based metaphysic is poorly treated in his writings – particularly concerning its deepest significance – it represents the “gold key” to comprehend the whole work of the Catalan philosopher. It shows interesting similarities with the “creatio continua” medieval theory, that is in turn in touch with some traditional Buddhist views and some recent scientific conceptions. A comparison between these apparently different doctrines supports the main ontological Panikkar’s idea: nothing exists “inside itself”, since things live “outside of themselves” into the open space of mutual interactions.

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  • Modernist Fiction and the French Nouveau Roman: Transnational Connections

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    by Annalisa Federici

    This essay focuses on a comparative study of Modernist fiction and the French Nouveau Roman. Not only do these literary phenomena display some common features allowing us to regard them as manifestations of the same cultural climate, but the Nouveaux Romanciers’ explicit mention of the Modernist novelists as their admired predecessors also seems to legitimise an approach that establishes continuity and reveals interesting transnational connections. Indeed, their relationship can be assessed in terms of reception and assimilation of a model. Such a reading shows some striking analogies between Woolf’s and Sarraute’s aesthetics on the one hand, and the never-ending quests of Joyce and Butor on the other.

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