Project description
Listening closer to forgotten voices
For centuries, literature has been tightly bound to national languages, leaving translingual writers on the margins. For instance, between the 19th and 21st centuries, many Italian women authors residing abroad wrote in languages other than their native, yet their work remains largely overlooked. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TranslingWOL project sheds light on this forgotten literary corpus. The project will analyse translingual texts and transnational trajectories and create a dedicated database. It will employ an interdisciplinary approach that blends literary theory and criticism, multilingual studies and digital humanities, offering the first extensive academic study of Italian translingual women’s literature. It will also challenge male-dominated and monolingually dominated frameworks, promoting a gendered, multilingual perspective to investigate cultural heritage.
Objective
TranslingWOL investigates the literary production of Italian women writers involved in long-lasting mobility abroad who express themselves in languages other than Italian, between the 19th and 21st centuries. From a transnational perspective, using an interdisciplinary set of methodological tools (literary theory and criticism, multilingual studies, women’s studies, sociology of literature, archival research, and digital humanities), it provides the first extensive academic study dedicated to Italian translingual women’s literature, which has been excluded from canonisation processes in both Italian and foreign literary histories, and largely overlooked by scholars, on account of its heterodox nature as compared to the traditional identity between language, literature, and nation.
Through close-readings of representative case studies, the project shows the existence of common traits within this panorama – at the textual level (motives and forms) and the contextual level (publication and reception) – and leads to the creation of an interpretative framework useful for the study of such production, an alternative to post- and inter- colonial paradigms to which this and analogous translinguistic phenomena are not merely assimilable. Through a distant reading of the overall panorama, all bio-bibliographical traces of each writer are collected and inserted in a specifically designed database, in order to consolidate the importance of the corpus, geo-map the areas of distribution of texts, and highlight the networks between authors.
The goal is not only to rediscover a neglected female literary corpus, but also to provide an innovative gendered and multilingual perspective to interrogate literature. In step with EU policies promoting gender equality and multilingualism, TranslingWOL offers a strategic rethinking of the models we generally use to investigate our cultural heritage, which are based on male as well as monolingual schemes, and proposes a complementary reading.
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- humanities languages and literature linguistics
- social sciences sociology
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- humanities history and archaeology history
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global Fellowships
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