Papers by Federico Pozzoli
Italiano LinguaDue, 2024
This paper offers a new exploration of the linguistic landscape (LL) of Milan, aiming to expand o... more This paper offers a new exploration of the linguistic landscape (LL) of Milan, aiming to expand on the materials collected so far in the Paesaggi & Lingua database, by focusing on the Arabic language in the area surrounding via Padova. The creation of a photographic archive and the qualitative analysis of some units as they are found in the post-pandemic period allow to identify the contexts in which the presence of the Arabic language is particularly important, such as services for citizenship, commercial activities, and informal communications. This paper prompts the flexibility of LL classification categories, introduces a new type of frame, and discusses the multiplicity of linguistic and semiotic strategies used in such activities, which are aimed at negotiating identity in space. In this way, this paper aims to pave the way for future research perspectives.
Middle Eastern Gothics Literature, Spectral Modernities and the Restless Past (Ed. Karen Grumberg), 2022
Post-2003 Iraqi literature has witnessed a great increase in the production of literary fiction. ... more Post-2003 Iraqi literature has witnessed a great increase in the production of literary fiction. This expansion has run parallel to a shift from a social realist poetics towards more fragmentary narrative paradigms, often deploying – and subverting – generic conventions. As Haytham Bahoora has shown in his seminal article ‘Writing the Dismembered Nation’, many of these new works situate themselves within a postcolonial Gothic paradigm, seeking to account for the everyday violence of occupation and civil war in Iraq by appealing to the supernatural and the terrifying. Yet, in a country where displacement is a concern for a large part of the population, such fictional re-membering of the nation happens through the prism of migration.
This chapter discusses how Gothic aesthetics intertwine with and shape distinctive forms of narrative authority beyond the national, and to develop a critical stance towards a new, global audience. To do so, it will focus on a narrative trope of Iraqi Gothic fiction: the dead narrator. Staging impossible narrative instances (i.e., narrators speaking after death), the texts that are the object of our analysis traumatise the reader and pose several issues related to the redoubling of the migrant subject.
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale, 2020
The great expansion of post-occupation Iraqi fiction, with its overall departure from social real... more The great expansion of post-occupation Iraqi fiction, with its overall departure from social realism and its exploration of new genres, has brought along a new conceptualization of the Author. This paper aims to study how a peculiar figure of authoriality is both invoked and projected through narrative voices in Sinan Antoon’s Fihris (2016). A complex and multi-layered text, Antoon’s novel is narrated by human and non-human voices. Yet, despite the scattered and fragmented surface of narration, a hierarchical, almost concentric organizational principle is provided by the relations between the main narrators in a context of metalepsis. The analysis will focus on the strategies of authentication employed by narrators of different diegetic levels in the novel, from the short stories embedded, to the further level of authority provided by the autobiographical elements in the narrative frame.
Edited volumes by Federico Pozzoli
Maydan: rivista sui mondi arabi semitici e islamici (https://rivista.maydan.it/eng/), 2022
Maydan è la prima rivista italiana di studi sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici diretta da dotto... more Maydan è la prima rivista italiana di studi sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici diretta da dottorande/i e laureate/i, il cui scopo principale è quello di incoraggiare la produzione di primi articoli di ricerca da parte di giovani studiose/i. Questa piattaforma si pone come un percorso di formazione continua che coinvolge sia le autrici e gli autori sia il suo Comitato editoriale, spronandole/li alla riflessione sulla ricerca e allo sviluppo delle abilità necessarie per la produzione, redazione e divulgazione di articoli scientifici. In tal modo, Maydan intende sostenere l’ingresso dei giovani studiose/i nel mondo della ricerca e favorirne i contatti e il dialogo. La rivista ruota attorno a un’ampia visione dei mondi arabi, semitici e islamici, che comprende le aree geografiche del Medio Oriente e del Nord Africa, le regioni del Sahel, del Caucaso, dell’Asia centrale e del Sud-est asiatico. Maydan dà spazio anche a contributi riguardanti le connessioni di queste aree geografiche con Europa, Nord America e resto del mondo. Gli articoli inviati sono sottoposti a un processo di doppia revisione tra pari che prevede, quando necessario, l’ausilio di un comitato scientifico internazionale, costituito da docenti delle varie discipline.
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Papers by Federico Pozzoli
This chapter discusses how Gothic aesthetics intertwine with and shape distinctive forms of narrative authority beyond the national, and to develop a critical stance towards a new, global audience. To do so, it will focus on a narrative trope of Iraqi Gothic fiction: the dead narrator. Staging impossible narrative instances (i.e., narrators speaking after death), the texts that are the object of our analysis traumatise the reader and pose several issues related to the redoubling of the migrant subject.
Edited volumes by Federico Pozzoli
This chapter discusses how Gothic aesthetics intertwine with and shape distinctive forms of narrative authority beyond the national, and to develop a critical stance towards a new, global audience. To do so, it will focus on a narrative trope of Iraqi Gothic fiction: the dead narrator. Staging impossible narrative instances (i.e., narrators speaking after death), the texts that are the object of our analysis traumatise the reader and pose several issues related to the redoubling of the migrant subject.