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Italy's Salman Rushdie: The renarration of “Roberto Saviano” in English for the post-9/11 cultural market
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In this paper, the authors consider the construction of the literary fame of Roberto Saviano, author of the 2006 Italian bestseller Gomorra, in the British book marketplace and demonstrate that the political import of the narratives that underpin the author-brand in translation is linked with a set of public narratives.Abstract:
This article considers the construction of the literary fame of Roberto Saviano, author of the 2006 Italian bestseller Gomorra, in the British book marketplace. In order to understand the political import of Saviano's translated author-brand, this analysis utilizes the tools of narrative theory to look at what narratives were created around the authorial personality and what other public narratives and meta-narratives are mobilized to introduce the author to his new reading public. The analysis centres on Saviano's reputation as “Italy's Salman Rushdie” and it demonstrates that the political import of the narratives that underpin the author-brand in translation is linked with a set of post-9/11 public narratives.read more
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A Review of “Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System”
TL;DR: A reading of this book will persuade you to think again about Organized Crime (OC) as mentioned in this paper, which is a book of first person accounts of OC of all genres, by actors on both sides of the aisle, n...
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Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano and Elena Ferrante’s L’amica geniale: the afterlife of two ‘glocal’ series
TL;DR: The authors compare the international reception of two "glocal" literary cases: Andrea Camilleri's Montalbano books, a translation from Italy to Italy, and a translation of the same author's book to Italy.
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Naples/Italy: An Accented Approach to City and Nation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new approach to the analysis of cultural accentedness of the city of Naples in the context of post-colonization theory, based on a reframing of national culture in terms of differently accented practices, discourses and interpretations.
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