Chiara Patrizi
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Department of Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Studies, Cultrice della Materia
Chiara Patrizi (1988) earned her PhD at the XXXI doctoral program in Lingue, letterature e culture straniere at Roma Tre University in 2019. Her thesis explores how human consciousness and time interact in the works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and Don DeLillo, introducing a concept that she defines as “wilderness of time." She earned her MA in Lingue e Letterature Europee, Americane e Postcoloniali at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she graduated (110 e lode) with the academic supervision of Professors Francesca Bisutti, Pia Masiero and Thomas J. Ferraro. Her thesis, “White Voices through the Nowhere of Time. Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist” received a special mention at the “Premio Lombardo – Gullì 2015” of the American Studies Association of Italy (AISNA).
In 2016, she participated in the American Literature Association 27th Conference in San Francisco, presenting a paper in a panel sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society.
In 2017, She was visiting scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC) to work on her Ph dissertation. In the same year, she did archival research at the Harry Ransom Center of UT Austin and at the Lilly Library of IU Bloomington.
Over her career, she has published on the relation between time and the individual in contemporary US literature, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Langston Hughes, Blues Literature, Jesmyn Ward, Bob Dylan.
Her research interests include: Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Postmodernism, Trauma Studies, Time Studies, African American Literature and Culture, Southern Studies.
She worked as Adjunct Professor of English Language and Culture at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
She is currently "cultrice della materia" at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy).
She also works as a free-lance literary translator and as a co-curator (fiction series) with D Editore publishing house.
Address: Venezia, Veneto, Italy
In 2016, she participated in the American Literature Association 27th Conference in San Francisco, presenting a paper in a panel sponsored by the Don DeLillo Society.
In 2017, She was visiting scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC) to work on her Ph dissertation. In the same year, she did archival research at the Harry Ransom Center of UT Austin and at the Lilly Library of IU Bloomington.
Over her career, she has published on the relation between time and the individual in contemporary US literature, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Langston Hughes, Blues Literature, Jesmyn Ward, Bob Dylan.
Her research interests include: Contemporary American Literature and Culture, Postmodernism, Trauma Studies, Time Studies, African American Literature and Culture, Southern Studies.
She worked as Adjunct Professor of English Language and Culture at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy).
She is currently "cultrice della materia" at Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy).
She also works as a free-lance literary translator and as a co-curator (fiction series) with D Editore publishing house.
Address: Venezia, Veneto, Italy
less
InterestsView All (17)
Uploads
Essays & Articles by Chiara Patrizi
Il saggio analizza il rapporto tra individuo e tempo nella letteratura americana contemporanea attraverso una selezione di autori (Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut) che esplorano i modi in cui memoria, esperienza del presente e capacità di proiettare il futuro interagiscono tra loro e con i traumi individuali e collettivi della nostra epoca, determinando così la percezione della realtà. I loro romanzi testimoniano di come l’attività narrativa sia uno strumento fondamentale per osservare il processo di ricostruzione dell’io, un percorso a cui ho dato il nome di “wilderness of time experience”.
Abstract
My essay examines the relation between the self and time in contemporary American literature. I have selected four authors (Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut) whose works deal with the ways in which memory, experience of the present, and projection of the future interact with each other and with the personal and collective traumas of our times, thus crucially affecting the perception of reality. These novels testify to narrative’s ability of exploring the process of reconstruction of the self—a path that I named “wilderness of time experience.”
Papers & Conferences by Chiara Patrizi
The aim of this paper, then, is to explore the implications of the condition of Lauren Hartke, the protagonist, and how these can be representative of the artistic process too. In fact, as the title declares immediately and readers must never forget, Lauren is a body artist, hence everything in the novel is filtered through her mind of artist.
The analysis will show how her husband’s suicide forces Lauren to question her identity and her “tools”, both as human and as artist. An artist always reshapes him/herself when creating a piece, with great effort sometimes, and this is particularly evident for a body artist. I believe that Lauren’s mourning somehow mirrors this creative process, and indeed the two dimensions overlap many times during the course of the novel. DeLillo portrays an artist who has been forced to face the pain and the limits of her human nature, but who manages to turn them into new possibilities, not only for her life but for her art too. Alone, Lauren works hard to regain possession of her body, which is the main instrument of her art, and even though she will learn that there are some things that she cannot control nor “adjust”, she will create something new out of this experience: a new performance, and a new self.
Book Chapters by Chiara Patrizi
MA Thesis by Chiara Patrizi
Papers by Chiara Patrizi
Il saggio analizza il rapporto tra individuo e tempo nella letteratura americana contemporanea attraverso una selezione di autori (Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut) che esplorano i modi in cui memoria, esperienza del presente e capacità di proiettare il futuro interagiscono tra loro e con i traumi individuali e collettivi della nostra epoca, determinando così la percezione della realtà. I loro romanzi testimoniano di come l’attività narrativa sia uno strumento fondamentale per osservare il processo di ricostruzione dell’io, un percorso a cui ho dato il nome di “wilderness of time experience”.
Abstract
My essay examines the relation between the self and time in contemporary American literature. I have selected four authors (Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut) whose works deal with the ways in which memory, experience of the present, and projection of the future interact with each other and with the personal and collective traumas of our times, thus crucially affecting the perception of reality. These novels testify to narrative’s ability of exploring the process of reconstruction of the self—a path that I named “wilderness of time experience.”
The aim of this paper, then, is to explore the implications of the condition of Lauren Hartke, the protagonist, and how these can be representative of the artistic process too. In fact, as the title declares immediately and readers must never forget, Lauren is a body artist, hence everything in the novel is filtered through her mind of artist.
The analysis will show how her husband’s suicide forces Lauren to question her identity and her “tools”, both as human and as artist. An artist always reshapes him/herself when creating a piece, with great effort sometimes, and this is particularly evident for a body artist. I believe that Lauren’s mourning somehow mirrors this creative process, and indeed the two dimensions overlap many times during the course of the novel. DeLillo portrays an artist who has been forced to face the pain and the limits of her human nature, but who manages to turn them into new possibilities, not only for her life but for her art too. Alone, Lauren works hard to regain possession of her body, which is the main instrument of her art, and even though she will learn that there are some things that she cannot control nor “adjust”, she will create something new out of this experience: a new performance, and a new self.