[B900] Notizie/A - CfP: Conferenza su Gianni Celati

Sat Sep 9 13:22:41 CEST 2006

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    BOLLETTINO '900 - Notizie / A, agosto 2006

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SOMMARIO:

- Letteratura come fantasticazione -
   a colloquio con Gianni Celati
   Literature as "fantastication" -
   in conversation with Gianni Celati
   University of Leicester
   2 - 4 May 2007
   CfP: 30 settembre 2006

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This colloquium aims to focus on the work of Gianni
Celati as a scholar, translator, fiction writer and
filmmaker. His 70th birthday offers an ideal
opportunity to pay a tribute to the key role that
Celati has been playing in shaping Italian fiction
and culture since the 1960s, a role that is still
undeservedly little acknowledged. While Celati's
professed anti-establishment attitude has built for
himself an image of a "cult writer", who is very
popular with young writers and ordinary readers,
his image has increasingly being appropriated
by academe and the literary system, as testified
by his being awarded in June 2005 the Premio
Selezione Campiello for his latest fictional work
*Fata Morgana*, a prize which represents an
important step towards a wider recognition of the
significance of his contribution to contemporary
Italian culture.

To date there have been no conferences on Celati in
the UK and our colloquium intends to redress this
unbalance. Whilst exploring various aspects of the
work of Celati and of his close collaborators
- including writers, translators and artists such
as Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Enrico
De Vivo, Jean Talon and Marianne Schneider - this
colloquium aims to reflect on the role of literature
and art in society, as these artists share a
conviction in the relief-giving potential of fiction
and in the collaborative nature of the artistic work,
as well as in its intrinsic interdisciplinarity.
By exploring the consonance of these artists'
poetics, particularly in the idea of literature as
"fantasticazione" ("reverie") and as ethnography
of imaginary populations, our colloquium will
investigate a new notion of "impegno" that seems
to emerge in many contemporary fictional works,
where the imaginative power of fiction becomes
a tool to create alternative worlds and communities
and to connect people through a shared imaginary.

The conference will combine sessions and round
tables, with the aim of creating a collaborative
atmosphere and conducing to an informal and
productive exchange of views.

Proposals are encouraged for individual papers,
as well as organized sessions or round tables,
on all aspects of the work of Gianni Celati,
Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, and others of
their collaborators, with a particular focus on
any of the following topics:

* literature/art as fantastication, or dream
    and vision
* literature/art as anthropology/ethnography
* narrating space and landscape
* regional literature
* the interrelation between the visual and the
    linguistic
* literature/art as collaboration
* the role of literature/art in contemporary
    Italian society

Papers and round table presentations in both
English and Italian will be considered.
Interested contributors should email/send an
abstract of about 300 words, a brief
bibliography, and a brief CV to both organizers:

Dr Marina Spunta
School of Modern Languages
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2658
Fax: +44 (0)116 252 3633
email: m.spunta at le.ac.uk

Dr Laura Rorato
Department of Modern Languages
University of Wales, Bangor
College Road
Bangor / Gwynedd
LL57 2DG
Tel: +44 (0)1248382125
Fax: +44 (0)1248382551
l.rorato at bangor.ac.uk

Deadline for the submission of proposals:
30 September 2006

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