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Giovanna BUONANNO

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Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali

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2024 - Eleonora Duse nella critica teatrale inglese di fine Ottocento [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2023 - Caryl Phillips's Interstitial Poetics [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The “spatial turn” in literary studies has challenged the perception that time is thefundamental organising principle of fiction and has drawn attention to the ways in which writers create literary cartographies. In a similar vein, postcolonial critics have foregrounded the role of “contact zones” and investigated the “third space” in between cultures as productive sites of interconnectedness, while also simultaneously laying bare the “labour of translation” that takes place in the territories reconfigured by the colonial domination. This article highlights the centrality of space in Caryl Phillips’s novels on transatlantic slavery and argues how, through a meticulous exploration of multiple spaces of transit and of the characters who inhabit them, the author suggestively lays out an interstitial poetics. Within Phillips’s composite oeuvre, the investigation of transatlantic slavery and its legacy is a pivotal, recurring theme. In his works, Phillips dwells on the liminal spaces that emerged in the context of the Middle Passage and the institution of slavery. As this article will argue, by reimagining the Black Atlantic as contiguous to the imperial centre, Phillips complicates the geography of colonial and imperial Britain.

2023 - Precarious lives and the refugee "crisis" in contemporary English drama: Anders Lustgarten’s Lampedusa (2015) and Rukhsana Ahmad’s Homing Birds (2019) [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Contemporary English drama has increasingly engaged with issues of displacement and migration, dramatizing the plight of refugees attempting to enter Europe. Works for the stage address global migrancy and humanitarian crises, while countering stereotyped media representations that tend to construct refugees and forced migrants as markers of crisis. Refugee plays function as “dramatic buffer zones […] re-inscribing alienation into the cultural and social make-up of British society” (Helff 2016:102). This article explores the complexities inherent to the representation on stage of the precarious lives of refugees through an analysis of two plays: Anders Lustgarten’s Lampedusa (2015) and Rukhsana Ahmad’s Homing Birds (2019). As the article suggests, since both plays invite audiences to reflect on issues such as “shelter, work, food, medical care, and legal status”, they can tentatively offer a space for “a more inclusive and egalitarian way of recognizing precariousness.” (Butler 2009: 13)

2022 - Adapting British Asian Women's Stories: Tanika Gupta's Anita and Me [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2022 - Introduction: Transnational Revision and Rewriting in Tanika Gupta’s Theatre [Articolo su rivista]
Schlote, Christiane; Buonanno, Giovanna
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Tanika Gupta’s dramatic writing and theatrical practice is a rich oeuvre which spans across genres and media. This article argues that the main feature of her work are a critical transnational perspective in terms of her works’ local and global concerns, her consistent demand for decolonising British theatre and education and not least her distinctive humour and wit. She has been described as “our most versatile writer for stage, screen and radio”. Her career as a playwright spans more than twenty-five years and her plays have been regularly produced in major theatres across Britain since the 1990s. As a “British born Bengali” (Shaikh 2011) playwright, “inflected by her heritage, but not bound by it” (Sierz “Introduction” 15), Gupta has written numerous original plays tapping in multiple traditions and genres within English drama, while also engaging in her work with aspects of South Asian culture and history. While her political plays, such as, for example, Gladiator Games, were written as “openly political play[s]”, their politics “resonate far beyond the immediate reasons for its creation” (Sierz “Introduction” 9). Her historical plays engage with the legacy and the “lasting effects of Britain’s imperial and colonial past on both countries” (Jones 8). Along with original works Gupta has also produced a sizeable body of adaptations and her commitment to translating cultures has led to numerous rewritings for the stage that have opened an ongoing dialogue on the part of the playwright with both classic, canonical works in the English and European tradition (The Country Wife, Hobson’s Choice, A Doll’s House), as well as with contemporary works that have mapped out an increasingly multicultural Britain (Anita and Me, Red Dust Road, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian). Gupta’s work is marked by an acute awareness of the complexities of class, ethnicity, gender, religion, racialised hierarchies and socio-cultural barriers and divisions. By employing a critical transnational perspective, which is also apparent in her “portrayal of multicultural groups of youths, routinely including Asian, black, mixed-race and white characters” (Griffin 237), as, for example, in White Boy, Gupta explores controversial and taboo subjects not only among British, British Bengali and South Asian communities, but in global contexts (such as female sex tourism in Sugar Mummies), and she especially highlights the colonial and postcolonial connections and networks between Britain and India.

2022 - Linguaggio e sopravvivenza: giovani rifugiati nella narrativa contemporanea in lingua inglese [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna; Tazzioli, Federica
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Questo contributo analizza la rappresentazione di giovani rifugiati in Europa in testi narrativi contemporanei che pon- gono particolare enfasi sul ruolo che l’acquisizione della lingua del paese d’arrivo (l’inglese) riveste in contesti delica- ti. Come suggeriscono i testi scelti per l’analisi, “imparare l’inglese della regina” è una priorità per i giovani rifugiati per i quali la competenza nella lingua del paese ospitante acquisisce molteplici significati: diventa un passaporto per l’accettazione, una chiave per la sopravvivenza e una strategia per costruire resilienza. L’articolo mette in luce, tramite l’analisi dei vari romanzi/testi narrativi considerati, ciò che un docente alle prese con gli studenti stranieri dovrebbe conoscere: il loro senso di spaesamento, l’identità in ricostruzione, le difficoltà, la volontà di nascondere la propria lingua, l’importanza della L2. Riteniamo quindi che possa stimolare una riflessione profonda sul tema focalizzando (s)punti specifici e che possa trovare un’applicazione didattica ad opera dei lettori.

2022 - Reimagining the New Woman: Tanika Gupta’s adaptation of A Doll’s House (2019) on the London stage [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The reception of Ibsen’s plays in England has been amply documented by scholars who have focused especially on how his work resonated with feminist writers and intellectuals championing the New Woman in late Victorian Britain. It was especially the character of Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House that galvanized the activity of translators and actresses, who teased out the complexity of this character and its significance in the cultural context of fin de siècle Britain. In later epochs, the play has frequently been revived through rewritings that have gradually aligned Nora’s predicament and her quest for selfrealization with the changing roles of women in society. In the 2019 rewriting of A Doll’s House by playwright Tanika Gupta, the play is relocated to Calcutta in 1879, the year A Doll’s House was written and two years after Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. Nora/Niru is a Bengali middle-class woman married to an English manager, Tom Helmer. The adaptation strengthens therefore the transnational appeal of the play that early women translators into English had intended to unpack, while simultaneously providing insights into Anglo-Indian relations in imperial Britain. This article intends to focus on the strategies adopted by Gupta in her postcolonial relocation of Ibsen’s work. Gupta’s intersectional take on the woman question brings to the fore interconnected issues of race, class and gender, thus contributing to the construction of the new woman in diasporic South Asian women’s writing (Hussain 2005).

2022 - Transnational Revision and Rewriting in Tanika Gupta's Theatre [Curatela]
Schlote, Christiane; Buonanno, Giovanna
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2021 - Hidden Lives on the NHS Frontline: Reading Healthcare Workers through Gender and Race in Black and Asian British Women's Writing [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The high number of casualties among ethnic minority medics and nurses in the UK as a result of the COVID-19 virus has highlighted the vulnerability of minority ethnic healthcare workers in the country and raised public awareness of their largely ignored presence within key British institutions “that so often define Britishness, not least the NHS” (Hirsch, 2020). This article examines the figure of the female healthcare worker in a selection of writings by black and Asian British women writers and argues that literary inscriptions pose a challenge to the enduring invisibility of minority healthcare workers in the social fabric of the UK. Writing at the intersection of race, gender and class, writers such as Maeve Clarke, Bernardine Evaristo, Jackie Kay, Winsome Pinnock and Meera Syal have endevoured to fill the gaps of history and reclaim the vital social role black and Asian female nurses and hospital staff have played in both imperial and post-imperial Britain, in the face of social exclusion and constant confrontations with “everyday racism” (Essed 1991).

2020 - Precarious lives and the refugee “crisis” in contemporary English drama: Anders Lustgarten’s Lampedusa (2015) and Rukhsana Ahmad’s Homing Birds (2019) [Altro]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Contemporary English drama has increasingly engaged with issues of displacement and migration, dramatizing the plight of refugees attempting to enter ‘Fortress Europe’. Works for the stage are part of a growing body of literary and artistic works cutting across various genres and art forms whose aim is to respond to global migrancy and humanitarian crises while countering stereotyped media representations that tend to construct refugees and forced migrants as markers of crisis. Drama becomes a powerful medium for the projection of images of Europe from the margins, as it attempts to restore humanity to refugees and “re-energize their position” (Woolley 2014: 9). As has been suggested, refugee plays function as “dramatic buffer zones […] re-inscribing alienation into the cultural and social make-up of British society” (Helff 2016:102)

2020 - Writing young refugees in contemporary English fiction: Chris Cleave's The Other Hand [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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his article seeks to explore the representation of a young refugee as a fictional character in The Other Hand by Chris Cleave, a novel that elaborates on the fragile condition of its main character, a girl displaced by war and terror who seeks to get permission to stay in England. The novel tries on the one hand, to give voice to Little Bee’s anguish during her internment in a detention centre first and throughout her subsequent struggle with the authorities, while on the other it also seeks to detail her process of gradual adaptation, and celebrate the character’s resilience and desire to reinvent herself in her new context. By discussing the inhospitable space of the detention centre and contrasting it with the tentative creation of spaces of hospitality in the novel, the article suggests that The Other Hand offers a composite portrayal of a young refugee character that manages to restore her individuality and humanity

2018 - Camilla Gibb's Sweetness in the Belly as a novel of translation [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The novel Sweetness in the belly focuses on Lilly Abdal, a white Muslim woman raised in Africa and forced to flee to London from her adopted home, the Ethiopian walled city of Harar, as revolution and civil war escalate in Ethiopia in the 1970s. The novel weaves Lilly’s life in Harar, with her new life in Thatcher London and offers many insights into religion, race, and exile. Since it foregrounds the complexity of Lilly’s plural self and her multiple displacement across Africa and then in London, the novel enriches a thriving canon of transnational/migrant writing in English: This article discusses ways in which the narrative hinges around the construction of Lilly’s transnational/translational identity, by bringing into focus both the linguistic tapestry of the novel and Lilly’s hybrid in-between status as a refugee, enhanced by her professional role as an aid worker and a nurse in a derelict London neighbourhood, where she performs a liaising role for exiles and refugees. The article draws on recent theoretical works on “translational writing” (Gilmour 2012; Gimour and Steinitz 2017) and on “narratives of translation” in English literature (Doloughan 2015), encompassing those fictional works that “thematize, narrativize and/or are structured around, questions of language, cultural identity and what it means to translate oneself or one’s culture” (Doloughan 2015, 79). Another major theoretical framework is provided by critical examinations of refugee writings that have helped to bring into focus the narrative construction of contemporary experiences of refuge and exile (Farrier 2011; Wolley 2014).

2017 - Black British Womens' Theatre in the 1980s and the Politics of Representation [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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This article discusses Black women’s drama and theatre of African and Caribbean lineage against the backdrop of both 1980s identity politics and the emerging Black and Asian theatre scene in Britain. It engages with existing scholarship on Black British theatre and focusses on the work of playwrights and theatre practitioners and in particular on the company Theatre of Black Women (1982-1988), whose work intended to explore “identities, cultures and stories that placed the periphery in the centre – on [their] own terms” (Evaristo 2013). This article argues that Black British women’s theatre played a crucial role in both shaping Black British culture in the 1980s and affirming the presence of Black women on the British theatre scene, while significantly contributing to developing “postcolonial British theatre” (Dahl 1995)

2017 - Exploring Literary Voices in Caryl Phillips's The Lost Child [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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In The Lost Child (2015) Caryl Phillips weaves an intricate web of multiple stories that move in time from post-war Britain to the nineteenth century Yorkshire setting of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which is here imaginatively reworked. In this novel, it is also possible to trace the influence of the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys and references to aspects of Phillips’s autobiography. The article discusses intertextuality in the novel and argues that literary refractions and the ensuing polyphony contribute to Phillips’s ongoing project of critically engaging with English cultural and literary heritage.

2017 - Foreword [Remediating Texts and Contexts from Shakespeare to the Present] [Breve Introduzione]
Angeletti, Gioia; Buonanno, Giovanna; Saglia, Diego
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The brief introduction examines the notion of remediation and how it is approached from a plurality of perspectives that allow to examine the transferring of a literary or cultural product from one medium to another in a variety of contexts

2017 - Remediating Texts and Contexts from Shakespeare to the Present [Curatela]
Angeletti, Gioia; Buonanno, Giovanna; Saglia, Diego
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"Remediating Texts and Contexts from Shakespeare to the Present" examines remediation as a pivotal mechanism characterising processes of cultural (re)production and dissemination as well as of literary rewritings and transformations. The various contributions approach the notion of remediation from a plurality of perspectives, analysing its rich phenomenology both in terms of the transferring of a literary or cultural product from one medium to another, and of the changes affecting a single expressive form under the impact of technology. All the essays offer new and original insights into texts and contexts participating in complex media networks of production, consumption, assimilation, competition, and reformulation. Thanks to its broad scope, the collection demonstrates how remediation is not only embedded in our entire cultural system but also refashions it continuously.

2017 - Shakespeare's reception in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Giulio Carcano's Translation of Macbeth [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article discusses Shakespeare's reception in 19th century Italy and the production of a noticeable body of translated work into Italian. Through a thorough investigation of the translation of Macbeth by Milanese writer Giulio Carcano, the article argues for the significance of Shakespeare in both 19th century Italian literary and theatrical culture, since Carcano's translations were also used in the stage adaptations by major 19th century Italian actors

2017 - Writing Across Languages and Cultures. Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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With her debut novel Black Mamba Boy, published in 2010 to much acclaim, Nadifa Mohamed has articulated in the increasingly diverse and thriving landscape of contemporary multicultural English fiction a distinct British Somali voice. Her work situates within an expanding body of literary works that reflects the multiplicity of the non-native cultures within multicultural Britain and has emerged out of the particular predicament of both first and second generation immigrant English writers.This contribution discussesthe ways in which the author weaves a tapestry of languages, cultures, personal and communal histories, aiming to challenge an enduring dynamic of marginal, peripheral stories disappearing from history. In Black Mamba boy Mohamed revisits the western tradition of the Bildungsroman novel and incorporates strategies of the African oral narrative, as she chronicles the coming of age process of her protagonist Jama. The initiation novel, concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist has often been favoured by postcolonial and bicultural writers to tell their stories of personal growth, within a context of migration and displacement.

2016 - Introduction [Remediating Imagination. Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial] [Breve Introduzione]
Angeletti, Gioia; Buonanno, Giovanna; Saglia, Diego
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The book explores the relevance of remediation to the formation and development of literature and culture in the British Isles and related linguistic-cultural areas around the world. The essays that compose it reconsider how the reception of canonical works and authors have been affected by technological transformations, as well as investigating the reinventions of the literary canon generated by remediating strategies from the Renaissance to contemporary times. They engage with the manifold phenomenology of remediation both in terms of the transference of a literary and cultural artefact from one medium to another, and of the transformation of a single expressive form triggered by the impact of technological changes.

2016 - Remediating Imagination. Literatures and Cultures in English from the Renaissance to the Postcolonial [Curatela]
Angeletti, Gioia; Buonanno, Giovanna; Saglia, Diego
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The book explores the relevance of remediation to the formation and development of literature and culture in the British Isles and related linguistic-cultural areas around the world. The essays that compose it reconsider how the reception of canonical works and authors have been affected by technological transformations, as well as investigating the reinventions of the literary canon generated by remediating strategies from the Renaissance to contemporary times. They engage with the manifold phenomenology of remediation both in terms of the transference of a literary and cultural artefact from one medium to another, and of the transformation of a single expressive form triggered by the impact of technological changes.

2016 - Victoria Sams. Immigration and Contemporary British Theater. Finding a Home on the Stage. Postcolonial Studies vol. 13. New York, Washington D.C/Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. 126 pp. ISBN: 978-1-4331-1305-5 [Recensione in Rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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the review discusses the book by Victoria Sams, Immigration and Contemporary British Theater. Finding a Home on the Stage., published in 2014 in the Peter Lang Postcolonial Studies series.

2015 - British South Asian Women's Voices on the English Stage: The Work of Kali Theatre Company [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article charts the development of the South Asian British theatre company Kali since its founding in 1990. Kali Theatre Company was founded by playwright Rukhsana Ahmad and actress Rita Wolf in the wake of the political activism of Asian women in Britain and has been committed to supporting and producing writing for the theatre by women of South Asian descent. By focusing on exemplary productions, the article argues that the company has contributed to the debate on identity politics on the English stage, while placing cultural hybridity at the centre of the theatrical experience.

2015 - Il sistema di Stanislavskij. Dagli esperimenti del Teatro d'Arte alle tecniche dell'Actors Studio [Traduzione di Libro]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Stanislavskij ha rivoluzionato lo studio e l'apprendimento delle tecniche di recitazione e il suo Sistema ha finito col costruire il punto di riferimeento essenziale dell'intero dibattito sull'arte dell'attore del Novecento. Il libro di Mel Gordon spiega la nascita e lo sviluppo del Sistema seguendone l'evoluzione dalle prime proposte avanzate da Stanislavskij agli inizi del secolo, fino alle esperienze condotte al Primo Studio del Teatro d'Arte di Mosca sotto la guida di Sulerzickij e alle varianti studiate nei laboratori di Vachtangov e di Michail Cechov.

2015 - Visions of Home in British Asian Women's Writing: Leena Dhingra's Amritvela and Roma Tearne's Bone China [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The articles discusses the ways in which the works by British Asian authors Leena Dhingra and Roma Tearne deal with the issue of "home" and "home making". In their works which are shaped by the diasporic experience, both authors deal with home as a contested terrain and construct it in ways that reflect their unhinged subject positioning. British Asian women’s writing has been shaped by the writers’ own experience of migration from the Indian Subcontinent to Britain. Over the last decades this thriving trend in contemporary English literature has grown to reflect the reality that “there are now three generations of Asian women living in Britain”, as sociologist Amrit Wilson has noted (Dreams, Questions, Struggles 129). Women writers have variously addressed issues of individual and group identity, and explored the link between gender and ethnicity. The search for a diasporic, cross-cultural identity, along with the quest for home and belonging, are crucial issues in British Asian women’s writing: the diasporic experience has engendered multiple linguistic and cultural relocations and the concept of home has become an increasingly contested terrain. In diasporic women’s literature home is poised at the intersections of being ‘unhomed’, as suggested by Homi Bhabha (Location of Culture 9), and feeling more or less comfortably at home in one country or more countries. British Asian women’s writing stems from a tentative negotiation of opposites such as freedom and confinement, uprooting and displacement and, as postcolonial critic Susheila Nasta has pointed out, offers an ongoing reflection on multiple ways of conceiving ‘home".

2014 - Reconfiguring Place and Identity in Roma Tearne's Narratives of War and Refuge [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article discusses the novel The Swimmer by Sri-Lankan English writer Roma Tearneand reads it against the contradictory rhetoric of tolerance and inclusiveness of millennium Britain. In this work, like other narratives revolving around issues of refuge and asylum, refugees and asylum seekers are portrayed as figures that are posited beyond the law of the nation. They embody new subaltern subjects, often confined to temporary and undefined internment in a “camp” situated beyond or in the proximity of the national borders, in those no man’s lands or new incarnations of the colonial “contact zones” (Pratt 1991) that reflect the residents’ insecure and fragile condition; or, as in the case of Tearne’s the Swimmer, they live hiding in precarious dwelling, shunning society for fear of deportation. In this way, they illuminate the “half-life” lived in the interstitial spaces of a “disseminated nation” that, in the words of Homi Bhabha, emerge out of “the scattering of the people […] in the nations of others” (Bhabha 1990: 291). Seen in this light, the novel The Swimmer projects an alternative vision of the nation and of national identity from its margins while elaborating on the insecure, unstable condition of migrant/exiled characters. The pain of exile along with the hope for a new home and identity is evoked by the characters’ negotiation with the loss of legal and geopolitical reference points and by highlighting the way they are reduced to what philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life” (1998) In the exposure of the bare life of refugees, literary inscriptions and visual representations are crucial, as they on the one hand, draw attention to the dehumanized conditions of living in a state of suspension, while on the other tend to provide a counternarrative of the widespread depiction of “the tide threatening to breach national borders” (Tyler 2006: 192). Narratives centring on refugees often revolve around some recurring motifs that are teased out in the analysis of Tearne’s The Swimmer, such as the question of the ethical responsibility of hospitality, the relationship between hosts and strangers and the ways in which the idea of nation, home and belonging become increasingly problematic for both arrivants and “hosts”. Another recurring motif is represented by the critique of both the role of institutions and the handling of human lives, problematizing the idea of England as a desirable destination and a safe haven. As the article argues, the novel invites a revision of space and place through the presence of the “infrahuman”, who is stripped bare of any status or security and therefore becomes a “disquieting element”, “breaking the identity between the human and the citizen” (Agamben 2000: 21). The locations explored are often quintessentially English settings, such as the secluded spaces of the English countryside or the cosmopolitan London setting, embodying the epitome of contemporary metropolis of which refugee narratives represent the “underside”, in sharp contrast to “glossy tourist representations” (Gibson 2006: 699).

2014 - Traduire le postcolonial et la transculturalité. Enjeux théoriques, linguistiques, littéraires, culturels, politiques, sociologiques [Curatela]
Quaquarelli, Lucia; Schubert, Katia; Silver, Marc; Buonanno, Giovanna
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Il volume raccoglie saggi teorici e casi di studio sul complesso rapporto tra teoria postcoloniale e traduzione. Si caratterizza per lo'apertura internazionale e per l'attenzione ai meccanismi della pratica della traduzione in contesti tranculturali.

2013 - Shakespeare and the Nineteenth-century Italian International Actress: Adelaide Ristori as Lady Macbeth. [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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the article focuses on the international career of the Italian 19th century theatre actress Adelaide Ristori. it discusses the centrality in the actress' international repertoire of her interpretation of Lady Macbeth and chronicles the actress's detailed study of this character and the reception of her interpretation particularly in Britain.

2012 - Between Page and Stage. Meera Syal in British Asian Culture [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article focuses on significant moments of Meera Syal’s career as both an actress and a writer and argues that her performance of a gendered and ethnic identity is a key element of her work . It emerges as a response to an overall lack of images of Asians, as well as to a very limited range of roles available to British Asian women. Since the mid-1980s Syal has contributed to enlarge the scope of representation of Asian women on stage and screen by offering a multiplicity of roles that could capture the plurality of their experiences, while also reflecting on the possibilities opened up to herself as an actress of Asian parentage in Britain. Similarly the protean, transformative quality of acting has influenced her writing and both acting and writing have been deeply instrumental to the process on which she has embarked of self-fashioning a female identity that intersects questions of ethnicity, cultural translation and typecasting.

2011 - Appartenenze Multiple: prospettive interdisciplinari su immigrazione, identità e dialogo interculturale [Curatela]
Bondi, Marina; Buonanno, Giovanna; Giacobazzi, Cesare
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L'interesse per lo studio dei rapporti fra culture si è notevolmente intensificato negli ultimi decenni, per l'impatto di consistenti flussi migratori e di una dimensione largamente globale delle relazioni economiche e culturali. La centralità del tema è particolarmente evidente in alcuni ambiti disciplinari: gli studi linguistici, letterari e giuridici sentono facilmente l'esigenza di confrontarsi con la diversità, sia che si tratti di guardare a questionidi cambiamento linguistico, di contatto culturale, di multilinguismo, di politica linguistica o di relazioni internazionali.Il tema delle appartenenze multiple costituisce il luogo di incontro di diverse discipline in questo volume. Sia che si guardi al mondo attuale, caratterizzato da globalizzazione e intensi flussi migratori, sia che si guardi alle origini coloniali del contatto o alle forme di contatto che sempre hanno caratterizzato le culture con la circolazione delle persone e delle idee, quello che interessa è la possibilità di stabilire un confronto e un dialogo fra mondi che si incontrano, talvolta anche in seno ad un solo individuo o ad una sola comunità.

2011 - Appartenenze multiple nella scrittura drammaturgica femminile British Asian [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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L'articolo discute il ruolo della scrittura dramamturgica nel percorso di affermazione identitaria delle donne originarie del subcontinente indiano in Inghilterra. L'analisi verte sulla produzione della compagnia teatrale Kali di Londra, fondata nel 1990 e tuttora attiva, con lo scopo di promuovere la scrittura per il teatro di donne provenienti dal subcontinente indiano.

2011 - Glocal Routes in British Asian Drama: Between Adaptation and Tradaption [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna; V., Sams; C., Schlote
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In the context of British Asian theatre and the search for a diasporic theatre aesthetics the practice of adaptation has emerged as a recurring feature. Over the last decades, British Asian theatre has sought to create a language of the theatre that can reflect the cultural heritage of Asians in Britain; this search has taken different directions testified also by the plurality of voices that today make up British Asian theatre and has responded to the need to challenge the conceptual binary of British and Asian, aiming to affirm South Asian culture on the stage as an integral part of British culture. As the article argues, adaptation also plays a role in highlighting the dialectic between local and the global particularly in those cases where regions of Britain such as the Northwest of England can be recreated on stage as South Asian British cultural spaces.

2011 - Il tragico nel teatro di Sarah Kane: Blasted [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Il saggio propone una lettura di Blasted, opera prima della drammaturga inglese Sarah Kane, come esplorazione del tragico nella contemporaneità. Il dramma è analizzato nel contesto della scena teatrale inglese degli anni novanta e alla luce della particolare vicenda umana dell'autrice. Inoltre, viene messa in luce la rete di rimandi interstestuali che colloca il dramma di Kane in una linea di ricerca drammaturgica sul tragico contemporaneo.

2010 - Contesting Misrepresentations in British Asian Women's Writing [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article discusses shifting modes of representation in British Asian women's writing and focuses on the works of three authors (r. Randhawa, M.Syal, Y. Whittaker Khan) who have challenged received notions of female Asian identiti in Britiain by exploring the different strands of their cultural heritage, while actively seeking to enlarge the scope of representation of British Asian women.

2010 - Introduction [The role of female voices in constructing fictional maps of contemporary Britain] [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The Introduction to the collection of essays published in Interactions 2010-special issue: "The role of female voices in constructing fictional maps of contemporary Britain", points to the ways diasporic-transnational women's writing has succeeded in drawing new contours of literary Britain.

2010 - The role of female voices in constructing fictional maps of contemporary Britain. 2010 Special issue of Interactions [Curatela]
Buonanno, Giovanna; S., Toplu
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The 2010 special issue of Interactions intends to explore the work of diasporic-transnational women's writers, who over the last decades have drawn new contours of literary Britain. The work of women writers of dual or multiple cultural heritage in Britain contributes to the positioning of English literature at a cultural crossroads of international scope and significance. The authors discussed in the volume have managed to chart new geographies of unbelonging and rewrite Britain as a multicultural physical and imagined space.

2010 - “1001 Nights Now: Diaspora Narratives on the English Stage” [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article focuses on "1001 Nights Now", a play staged in Britain in 2005, dramatizing the experience of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers, in the aftermath of 9/11. The article argues that by foregrounding the narrative element as a strategy for survival and by bringing together echoes and features of diverse cultures, the play recreates a disporic/translational space on the stage and contributes to the conceptualization of intercultural theatre as posited "at the crossroads of cultures", according to P. Pavis (1992).

2009 - (Alcune considerazioni) su la scrittura della black Britain tra ibridazione e traduzione culturale [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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l'articolo ripercorre le fasi salienti della formazione della black Britain in ambito letterario e culturale e suggerisce, attraverso l'analisi -ispirata alle recenti tendenze dei cultural studies e dei translation studies -di alcuni testi esemplari e della ricezione italiana di scrittori black British che questa copiosa produzione letteraria contribuisce a ridefinire i contorni e i confini della letteratura inglese contemporanea e dell'Englishness.

2009 - Invito [Traduzione in Volume]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2009 - Remembering Slavery 1807-2007. A View from Manchester [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article documents ways in which the city of Manchester marked the bicentenary anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade in 2007. By analyzing the wide range of events which were offered to the community, the article argues that by emphasizing the links between the past - and often hidden - history of Britain and the enduring legacy of slavery in the country, this series of events actually helped to expand the remit of heritage and the heritage industry and ultimately projected revised versions of Englishness.

2008 - Exploring/Exploding "Hinglish" in British-Asian TV comedy [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article discusses how English/Hinglish is treated in contemporary British-Asian TV comedy and argues that as a form of code mixing, Hinglish can be deployed as a viable strategy towards the construction of hybrid identities.

2008 - Recensione di D. Godiwala (a cura di) "Alternatives within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatre" e G. Davis e A. Fuchs (a cura di) "Staging New Britain: Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice". [Recensione in Rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2007 - Mapping a gendered identity across languages and cultures in Grace Nichols’ writing [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article explores the interplay between language and identity in the writing of Guyanese British author Grace Nichols and argues that both standard and creole English are instrumental in the author's process of mapping out a gendered identity across cultures.

2006 - Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers [Articolo su rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2005 - Cross-Cultural Encounters: identity, gender, representation [Curatela]
Silver, Marc Seth; Buonanno, Giovanna
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La varietà dei temi e approcci che caratterizza i saggi presenti nel volume evidenzia da un lato l'interrelazione tra i diversi campi del sapere e dall'altro sottolinea come gli studi culturali dialoghino costantamente con la linguistica e la letteratura, costituendo un fertile luogo di incontro e di scambio.

2005 - Introduction [Cross-Cultural Encounters: Identity, Gender, Representation] [Breve Introduzione]
Silver, Marc Seth; Buonanno, Giovanna
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2005 - Parading British-Asian Identities [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The article looks into the question of representaion of minority cultures in contemporary Britain by focusing on selected cultural and literary production of British Asian writers who in their writings foreground the lack of visibility of minorities, while at the same time challenge stereotypical and all too limited representations of British Asians.

2005 - Tradurre Shakespeare oggi [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Il contributo analizza le problematiche relative alla traduzione e ricezione di Shakespeare in epoca contemporanea e suggerisce che l'estetica novecentesca ha contribuito a rivedere la tradizionale dicotomia tra la traduzione dell'opera shakespeariana intesa per la lettura e quella rivolta alla scena, prendendo ad esempio la traduzione pdella Tempesta di Agostino Lombardo (1978) per la messincena di Giorgio Strehler al Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

2002 - INTERNATIONAL ACTRESSES ON THE VICTORIAN STAGE [Monografia/Trattato scientifico]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The study documents the English careers of 19th century Italian international actresses and analyzes some of their most significant stage roles and their reception in Victorian England.

2002 - Shakespeare's Early Reception and Translation in Italy [Monografia/Trattato scientifico]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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The book outlines the history of the Italian response to Shakespeare between the 18th and the 19th century, moving from the first, scanty references to Shakespeare to the production of a substantial body of translations and stage adaptations of his work. A case study is presented: Giulio Carcano's Macbetto, considered in its twofold value of literary translation and playtext for a theatre production.

2001 - Maria Melato, il mito dell'attrice [Recensione in Rivista]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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A cinquant'anni dalla morte di Maria Melato, la città di Reggio Emilia ha dedicato all'attrice reggiana una mostra, che si è svolta dal 28 ottobre al 10 dicembre del 2000 nel Ridotto e nella Sala degli Specchi del Teatro Municipale Valli. La mostra, curata da Edo Bellingeri e Susi Davoli, ha ricostruito il mito dell'attice attraverso una ricca esposizione documentaria che ha illustrato l'iter artistico e umano della grande attrice.

2000 - Attraverso il campo minato a passo di danza. Note sulla teoria, la pratica e la politica della critica letteraria femminista. [Traduzione in Volume]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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2000 - Piacere visivo e cinema narrativo [Traduzione in Volume]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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1999 - L'attrice vittoriana da Grande Dame a New Woman [Relazione in Atti di Convegno]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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Il contributo analizza la figura dell'attrice vittoriana nel passaggio dai modelli di contrapposti 'grande dame' della metà del secolo a quello di 'new woman' che si afferma verso la fine del secolo. I due modelli corrispondono non solo ad un cambiamento della figura della donna nella società e nelle arti, cui si rifanno le attrici dell'epoca, ma anche al passaggio da stili attorici di impostazione classicista a quelli maggiormente incentrati sulle capacità dell'attrice di rendere la dimensione psicologica del personaggio che emergono verso il fin de siècle.

1996 - La dame aux camélias and Eleonora Duse's fine de siècle repertoire on the English stage [Capitolo/Saggio]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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This article discusses Eleonora Duse's interpretation as Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' La dame aux camélias, as part of her international repertoire and one of her most successful roles in her London season in the 1990s. Following the London theatre critics' reception of Duse in this role , the article argues that the Italian actress succeeded in discovering a new dimension for this well known role, challenging the traditional iconography of the"tart with a golden heart" and offering a nuanced, subtle and psichologically intense interpretation of this character.

1994 - Eleonora Duse and the Idea of the Actor. [Relazione in Atti di Convegno]
Buonanno, Giovanna
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the article discusses Eleonora Duse's international career int he light of both theories of acting and the reception of female actresses int he fin de siècle.