3.Piazza dei Cinquecento in Igiaba Scego and Porpora Marcasciano

Alice Parrinello December 31, 2022 Issue: g/s/i 8 (2021) Category: Themed Section

by Alice Parrinello

Piazza dei Cinquecento, in Rome, is dedicated to five hundred Italian colonising soldiers who died in nineteenth-century Eritrea. Contributing to the national narrative, the piazza constructs them as mere heroic victims. Simultaneously, the piazza is central in two novels that challenge normative discourses on Italianness: L’aurora delle trans cattive (2018) by Porpora Marcasciano and La linea del colore (2020) by Igiaba Scego.

8.Valerie Solanas’s Trilogia SCUM: A feminist translation project of care. Interview/dialogue with Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli.

Stefania Arcara, Deborah Ardilli, Michela Baldo August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Invited Perspectives

by Stefania Arcara, Deborah Ardilli, Michela Baldo

This interview focuses on the recent publication of Trilogia SCUM (2017), the Italian translation and retranslation of the complete works by radical lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas (editors Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli). Solanas’s publication is discussed as a feminist translation project of care: through the use of abundant paratextual material, and through the restoration of Solanas’s uncensored SCUM Manifesto (1967), Arcara and Ardilli have joined efforts in reconstituting the legitimacy of Solanas as a feminist writer,

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3.Piazza dei Cinquecento in Igiaba Scego and Porpora Marcasciano

8.Valerie Solanas’s Trilogia SCUM: A feminist translation project of care. Interview/dialogue with Stefania Arcara and Deborah Ardilli.

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