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Alternative title: Story-Telling and Equitable Inter-Connections in Languages and Literatures
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... no. 19 November 2019 of Le Simplegadi est. 2003 Le Simplegadi
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We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal. Aboriginal Epos, Australian History, Universal Poetry, Francesca Di Blasio , single work criticism
'The first collection of poetry by an Aboriginal author, Oodgeroo Noonuccal,
was published in 1964 by Jacaranda Press. We Are Going embodies key features
of Aboriginal literature and can be interpreted as an Aboriginal epos as
well as a document in Australian history. Individual stories often painfully
interface with the macro-history of white policies towards Indigenous people.
This poetical remembering of a recent and traumatic past becomes a form of
recovery from trauma itself, since Oodgeroo’s poetics preserve the memory
of a much older past, the one of pre-invasion Indigenous culture. This paper
aims at analysing Oodgeroo’s poems in this perspective, by focussing on both
their epical and historical features, while keeping in mind their specificity as
artistic, literary, and poetic texts. The experience of translating We Are Going
for its first Italian edition (Oodgeroo 2013) has been greatly instrumental in
coming to terms with the richness and significance of the poems.' (Publication summary)
Narrative Empathy in James Bradley’s Clade: Disability, Ecosickness and Hope, Angelo Monaco , single work criticism

'In his latest novel Clade (2015), Australian author James Bradley portrays
apocalyptic scenarios in the aftermath of the ubiquitous climate change that is
affecting our planet, while following the human conflicts of three generations
of the Leith family. And yet, this article argues that the novel privileges an
optative mood instead of the traditional collective catastrophe of canonical
eco-fiction. To do so, the article scrutinises some formal strategies of narrative
empathy, such as character identification and multiple focalisation, which favour
the reader’s emotional engagement. In the novel, vulnerable manifestations
disclose a profound empathic orientation, addressing an ethics of care
that implicates the reader affectively.' (Publication abstract)

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