Much has been said about the connection between chaos theory in science and in recent literature and philosophical thinking, particularly about the way in which they talk to each other in postmodern culture. Our wanting to look at contemporary sites of chaos, as the title of this volume states, is motivated by the will to face these chaotic times, to try and understand what chaos may mean, and also to ask why looking at chaos may be interesting for postcolonial studies scholars, writers and readers.
The book stems from the work of AISCLI and is published by Aracne editrice.
Contributors: Esterino Adami, Simona Bertacco, Giuseppina Botta, Elena Maria Carraro, Roberta Cimarosti, Giulia D'Agostini, Paola Della Valle, Claudia Gualtieri, Maria Paola Guarducci, Jaqueline Jondot, Annalisa Oboe, Federica Zullo.
From Europe to a variety of World Literatures and Cultures in English. The AISCLI Summer School aims at widening the competence of BA postgraduate students (also those who wish to become teachers, educators, cultural mediators, translators), doctoral students and PhD holders in the field of postcolonial theories, literatures and cultures.
This wider perspective on African, Caribbean, Canadian, Pacific and Asiatic artistic and intellectual productions - in the form of poetry, prose, drama, music, figurative art, architecture and cinema - will be the focus of a series of lectures, seminars and workshops held by academics, who are expert and have publications in those fields.
Lola Shoneyin (Nigeria) e Muthoni Garland (Kenya) conversano con
Shaul Bassi (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia) e Annalisa Oboe (Università di Padova)
venerdì 12 aprile ore 16:00
Fondazione Querini Stampalia
The next AISCLI conference will be held in Rome at Università Roma Tre (17-18 January 2013). It will discuss the continuing relevance of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993) on the twentieth anniversary of its publication, and read it against the contemporary literary, cultural and political scene.
Please send paper or panel proposals to AISCLI info@aiscli.it
The deadline for submission is 30 September 2012.
