{"id":353,"date":"2017-12-12T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=353"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:41:04","slug":"amara-lakhous-in-class-talks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2014-15-events\/migrating-words-writer-amara-lakhous-on-cultural-and-literary-translation\/amara-lakhous-in-class-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Amara Lakhous: In-Class Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, April 6th, 2015
\n<\/strong>Conrad J. Schmitt Hall 104
\n<\/a>Light refreshments will be served between the two talks
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\"Clash<\/p>\n

1. In-class talk<\/strong>\u00a0(11:30-12:45):\u00a0Migrations, the South, and the Mediterranean in\u00a0Clash of Civilizations Over\u00a0<\/em>an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\n(Moderated by\u00a0Teresa Fiore<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Linked to the Spring 2015 class ITAL381 (Contemporary Italian Cultural Studies), this talk will focus on Amara Lakhous’ bestselling book,\u00a0Clash of Civilizations Over\u00a0<\/em>an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(2006), as the starting point for a conversation driven by student questions. The exchange will revolve around topics such as: migrations (of Italians abroad, of foreigners into Italy, and of Southern Italians to the North of the country); the geo-cultural role of the Mediterranean; and the Southern Question\/s. While centered around the specific context of Italy, in Lakhous’ book – now translated into five languages – these issues become trans-cultural. Thanks to his humor, language play, and agile use of the detective genre, Rome in his experimental novel becomes a new type of\u00a0caput mundi<\/em>\u00a0to talk about the globalized world of yesterday and today.
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\nStudents interested in attending, who are not enrolled in ITAL381, can contact their professors for more information, and then write to inserra@montclair.edu<\/a> to RSVP.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Divorce<\/p>\n

2. In-class talk<\/strong>\u00a0(1-2:15pm):\u00a0Divorce Islamic Style<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Tradition of Sicilian literature<\/strong>
\n(Moderated by\u00a0Gina Miele<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Linked to the Spring 2015 class ITAL280 (20th-Century Italian Literature), this talk will focus on Amara Lakhous’ acclaimed book,\u00a0Divorce Islamic Style<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2010).\u00a0The exchange will revolve around influences on his writing, specifically Sicilian literature (Leonardo Sciascia and Vitaliano Brancati) and film (Pietro Germi’s 1961 classic\u00a0Divorce Italian Style<\/em>). In a novel that like others by Lakhous is centered on the fluid and fleeting nature of personal identity, the transcultural context designed by the author offers a 21st-century take on Sciascia’s famous adage “Sicily as a metaphor for the world.”
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\nStudents interested in attending,\u00a0who are not enrolled in ITAL280,\u00a0can contact their professors for more information, and then write to inserra@montclair.edu<\/a> to RSVP.<\/em><\/p>\n