Un implacabile stare nel mezzo. Il sintomo postcoloniale come critica delle condizioni affettive delle seconde generazioni in Italia

Henkilöhahmot multimodaalisessa kerronnassa – tapaustutkimus kuvakirjan visuaalisesta kielestä ja karakterisaatiosta

Multimodal texts such as picturebooks are forms of artistic expres-sion communicating through the combination of the modes of the verbal, the visual and the aural. Picturebooks are not far removed from comics: they both include not only images and written texts but also visual tools such as sound effects, text boxes, speech bub-bles, bodily gestures, postures, and facial expressions, all of which reinforce the joint effect of the words and images. The aural mode is triggered during the readin...

Fascist soft-power propaganda in the Baltic states during the interwar period: the case of Latvia

This article, the result of intense archive work, retraces the influence of Italian cultural propaganda in Latvia starting from the de jure recognition in 1921 until the first Soviet occupation in 1940. The cultural relations between Italy and Latvia, could be depicted in two different waves: the first one, from 1921 until 1932, where Italy tries to establish the foundations of its cultural influence, not without a few difficulties, and the second one, from 1933 until 1940, when Fascist propa...

#Stayhome, Don’t Go Out! Reading “Fair, Brown, and Trembling” in the Time of Covid-19

As Dorothy Gale says in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939), the film adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s novel: “There’s no place like home”, a way of saying that home is the best place to be. However, it is known that home is not the best place for anyone to be, because it is the main place where domestic violence – “the commonest form of violence against women” (Terry, 2007) – occurs. Starting from this consideration, inspired by recent historical events, the coronavirus outbreak and the consequent lockdo...