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<dc:title>Unveiling absences, or unsettling multiculturalism, in Antonio Casella's 'The Sensualist' and Venero Armanno's 'Romeo of the Underworld' and 'The Volcano'</dc:title>
<dc:creator>MESSINA, GIOVANNI</dc:creator>
<dc:contributor>Messina, Giovanni</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>PERSICO, Gemma</dc:contributor>
<dc:contributor>PERSICO, Gemma</dc:contributor>
<dc:subject>Sicily,Australia,ethnic minority literature,Venero Armanno,Antonio Casella,Romeo of the Underworld,The Volcano,The Sensualist,migration,Gothic,hybridity,sublime,memory,dreams,metaphor</dc:subject>
<dc:description>Scopo di questo studio è stato quello di analizzare gli elementi gotici presenti nei romanzi in esame al fine di evidenziarne il rapporto con il concetto di liminality delle varie generazioni di migranti e come la stessa venga veicolata dalla stessa struttura narrativa. Dunque, un rapporto tra  forma  e  contenuto  tendente a scardinare qualsiasi discorso di  autenticità  e  mimesi  che confina tali opere ad una sfera esclusivamente sociologica ed etnografica. L'effetto parodico e sublime di questi topoi gotici e dell'intertestualità, interpretati nella letteratura dell'arrivant dei due autori come elementi semiotici, decostruiscono le narrazioni monologiche del multiculturalismo australiano. In breve, della  Whiteness , dell'etnocentrismo e dell'identità. Tale approccio decostruttivo  svela  quelle  assenze  lacaniane fondanti l immagine narcisista del soggetto  bianco  e permette un discorso di  soggettività ibrida.</dc:description>
<dc:description>This study investigates the relationship between the Gothic topoi present in the three novels analysed and the possible liminality of first and second migrant generations. Besides, it explores how this affects the narrative architecture of these novels dismantling their common interpretation as  authentic  and  mimetic . In other words, as sociological and ethnographic documents. The parodic and sublime effects of both Gothic topoi and uncanny intertextuality, read as semiotic elements of a literature of the arrivant, deconstruct the monological narrations of the multicultural discourse in Australia. In brief,  Whiteness , ethnocentrism and identity. Such an approach  unveils  those Lacanian  absences , which support the narcissistic image of  the  white  subject, thus paving the way for hybridity.</dc:description>
<dc:date>2011-12-09</dc:date>
<dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis</dc:type>
<dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11769/583801</dc:identifier>
<dc:language>eng</dc:language>
<dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
<dc:publisher>Università degli studi di Catania</dc:publisher>
<dc:publisher>place:Catania</dc:publisher>
<dc:rights>license:PUBBLICO - Pubblico con Copyright</dc:rights>
<dc:rights>license uri:iris.PUB02</dc:rights>
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