RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI | |
Anno XVIII , n° 1, Giugno 2000 ( Letteratura italiana nel mondo ) | pag. 233-239 |
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THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORLD: THE LANGUAGE OF RESISTANCE |
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WILLIAM ANSELMI | |
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta |
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Emanuel di Pasquale. The Silver Lake Love Poems, West Lafayette, IN.: Bordighera Press, 2000. 28 pp. Felix Stefanile. The Country of Absence, West Lafayette, IN.: Bordighera Press, 2000. 60 pp. Ross Talarico. The Journey Home, West Lafayette, IN.: Bordighera Press, 2000. 57 pp. If literature, fundamentally, is the necessary confrontation with the Other (within/without), displaced literature is the actualization of that confrontation as the germinating factor. What do we mean, though, by displaced literature? Displaced literature is a narrating process that posits at its fulcrum a passage from a socio-cultural landscape to another. The consequences (anthropological, economical, political, psychological, and so on) of that particular passage, both individually and collectively, constitute the background from which narratives emerge. [...] |
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