N Mandolini
Biographic Data
| ID | 57885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Mandolini |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mandolini |
| SIGNATURE | MANDOLINI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minho |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9137-9380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Quadrinhos Resistentes — Graphic Novels Against Gender-Based Violence in the Lusophone World
Gender-based violence, defined as any act of violence perpetrated due to the victim’s gender (Boyle, 2019), is a pervasive phenomenon with substantial socio-economic costs. In Portugal alone, gender-based violence is estimated to cost the State 8,4 million euros annually (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2021), while in Brazil, one of the most widespread forms of gender violence, violence against women, costs the government approximately 2…
Grown Up Boyz and Girlz. Italian Graphic Novelists’ Trans-European Paths and Gendered Representations
Encouraged by a growing tendency towards international training and education as well as by the precarity that dominates artistic production in Italy, Italian comics artists are the protagonists of a diaspora as they emigrate to other European countries. This article investigates the effects of migration and geographical in-betweenness on the work of two Italian graphic novelists, Nicoz Balboa and Alice Socal, whose texts feature explicitly gende…
Self, Bodies, Memories. Women Graphic Novelists’ Autobiographical Coming of Age between Tradition and Innovation
Col fumetto posso fare di tutto’. Life Narratives and the Italian Graphic Novel
While comics studies are now a fully recognised field within academic debate in the humanities, it wasn’t until around ten years ago, when the medium really began to flourish, that they began to be accepted as an object of study in universities and research centres, including the field of Italian studies. This collective volume brings together an international group of scholars who were invited to reflect on one of the most fruitful genres in the…
Girls Who Love Girls and Boys Who Love Girlish Dresses
Joana Estrela, born in Penafiel in 1990, is a Portuguese illustrator and comics artist whose short but rich career path intersects significantly with the concerns of girlhood and the dynamics of the transnational creation and circulation of graphic narratives. In 2013, she self-published the zine, Os vestidos do Tiago , which was later re-published by the independent Luso-Brazilian publisher Sapata Press in 2018 and is now available in English wi…
Girls in Comics
As the guest editors of this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we invited comics and media scholars to discuss girlhood from the perspective of transnational and/or transmedia practices. These investigations avoid the trap Anita Harris warned us about in All about the Girl (2004) since they approach girlhood as a “constantly shifting” category, to use the words of Kristine Moruzi (2012: 191) rather than as a natural …
Introductory Note
Comics and graphic novels -or graphic narratives, as some prefer to call them In recent years, the emergence and spreading of the graphic novel, a format that is generally associated with "longer-length and adult-themed comics" (Baetens & Frey, 2015, p. 1) and with distribution channels (namely, bookshops) previously precluded the medium, allowed graphic narratives to enjoy a new renaissance in many areas of the globe. It also worked as a laissez…
Wonder feminisms
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the denunciation of gender-based violence has become widespread in Italy. Capitalising on the groundbreaking work of feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s, a significant number of contemporary Italian collectives and networks have succeeded in bringing to the attention of mainstream media the issues of femicide, domestic abuse, rape and denied reproductive rights. Artivistic practices have played a c…
Re-appropriating Abjection
Julia Kristeva’s theories on the abject have proven fruitful for feminist criticism, which has produced a huge body of research on the representation of motherhood and femininity as macabre. More recently, the concept of abjection has been blamed for supposedly legitimising, instead of questioning, hetero-patriarchal erasure of women’s subjectivity. Despite this theoretical controversy, a growing number of comics and graphic novels, where the abj…
Comics As a Tool for Research on Gender Violence. Interview With Nayanika Mookherjee on the Graphic Novel Birangona. Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence During Conflict (2019)
Comics and the recently emerged graphic novel format are among the art forms that researchers have chosen to disseminate and provide a visual representation of their work. This relationship between comics and research, which is part of a practice labelled as “arts-based research”, has been facilitated by comics’ recognised narrative and didactic abilities. Research on gender-based violence has not been deaf to the call of comics art, and, in some…
Aesthetics in Distress
Versão portuguesa: Canlı, E., & Mandolini, N. (2022). Estética em angústia: A violência de género e a cultura visual. Nota introdutória. Vista, (10), e022009. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4071
The Art of Smearing
On March 8, 2019, during a demonstration organised on occasion of the International Women's Day in Milan, members of the feminist collective Non Una Di Meno (not one woman less) Milano threw washable pink paint on the statue that commemorates the Italian journalist Indro Montanelli (1909-2001). The aim of exposing at a visual level the acclaimed writer's controversial past was crucial to the group's symbolic action. In fact, despite being a refer…
Let’s go graphic. Mapping Italian graphic novels on gender-based violence
This article aims at mapping the currently unexplored but vibrant phenomenon of Italian production of graphic novels on the topic of gender-based violence. It puts it in dialogue with international studies on the representation of patriarchal abuse that, in recent years, have investigated the self-portrayal of trauma in graphic memoirs by women and the portrayal of sexual and gendered assault in comics and graphic novels. The analysis is the resu…
Retrieving or Revising? Using Mythology in Contemporary Italian Literature against Femicide
This article investigates two contemporary Italian novels treating femicide: Undicesimo comandamento (2011) by Elena Mearini and Padreterno (2015) by Caterina Serra. It draws on feminist insights that consider practices of revising and retrieving mythology as an opportunity to launch a process of re-symbolisation, one capable of challenging patriarchal discrimination and violence. In particular, the article examines Mearini’s decision to rewrite …
Violenza domestica e questioni di genere nel family crime all’italiana
Autore di crescente fama, Giampaolo Simi (Viareggio, 1965) ha ottenuto tra il 2013 e il 2015 importanti riconoscimenti da parte della critica, culminati con l’assegnazione del premio Scerbanenco al suo romanzo Cosa resta di noi (2015). Affascinato sin dal suo esordio dalle atmosfere noir che, non a caso, dominano la sua prima produzione romanzesca, Simi ha recentemente allargato i suoi orizzonti decidendo di incorporare all’interno del genere pol…
Beyond Rape
This article reads two feminist literary works on gender violence, Maraini’s Donna in guerra (1975) and Schiavo’s Macellum (1979), through the lens of the political discourse that the Italian feminist movement developed in relation to the issue of rape in the late 1970s. Adopting the classification offered by Johan Galtung’s theory on direct, structural and cultural violence, as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s theorization on symbolic violence, this es…
Aesthetics in Distress
Versão portuguesa: Canlı, E., & Mandolini, N. (2022). Estética em angústia: A violência de género e a cultura visual. Nota introdutória. Vista, (10), e022009. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4071
Beyond Rape
This article reads two feminist literary works on gender violence, Maraini’s Donna in guerra (1975) and Schiavo’s Macellum (1979), through the lens of the political discourse that the Italian feminist movement developed in relation to the issue of rape in the late 1970s. Adopting the classification offered by Johan Galtung’s theory on direct, structural and cultural violence, as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s theorization on symbolic violence, this es…
Violenza domestica e questioni di genere nel family crime all’italiana
Autore di crescente fama, Giampaolo Simi (Viareggio, 1965) ha ottenuto tra il 2013 e il 2015 importanti riconoscimenti da parte della critica, culminati con l’assegnazione del premio Scerbanenco al suo romanzo Cosa resta di noi (2015). Affascinato sin dal suo esordio dalle atmosfere noir che, non a caso, dominano la sua prima produzione romanzesca, Simi ha recentemente allargato i suoi orizzonti decidendo di incorporare all’interno del genere pol…
Let’s go graphic. Mapping Italian graphic novels on gender-based violence
This article aims at mapping the currently unexplored but vibrant phenomenon of Italian production of graphic novels on the topic of gender-based violence. It puts it in dialogue with international studies on the representation of patriarchal abuse that, in recent years, have investigated the self-portrayal of trauma in graphic memoirs by women and the portrayal of sexual and gendered assault in comics and graphic novels. The analysis is the resu…
Retrieving or Revising? Using Mythology in Contemporary Italian Literature against Femicide
This article investigates two contemporary Italian novels treating femicide: Undicesimo comandamento (2011) by Elena Mearini and Padreterno (2015) by Caterina Serra. It draws on feminist insights that consider practices of revising and retrieving mythology as an opportunity to launch a process of re-symbolisation, one capable of challenging patriarchal discrimination and violence. In particular, the article examines Mearini’s decision to rewrite …
Comics As a Tool for Research on Gender Violence. Interview With Nayanika Mookherjee on the Graphic Novel Birangona. Towards Ethical Testimonies of Sexual Violence During Conflict (2019)
Comics and the recently emerged graphic novel format are among the art forms that researchers have chosen to disseminate and provide a visual representation of their work. This relationship between comics and research, which is part of a practice labelled as “arts-based research”, has been facilitated by comics’ recognised narrative and didactic abilities. Research on gender-based violence has not been deaf to the call of comics art, and, in some…
Aesthetics in Distress
Versão portuguesa: Canlı, E., & Mandolini, N. (2022). Estética em angústia: A violência de género e a cultura visual. Nota introdutória. Vista, (10), e022009. https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4071
The Art of Smearing
On March 8, 2019, during a demonstration organised on occasion of the International Women's Day in Milan, members of the feminist collective Non Una Di Meno (not one woman less) Milano threw washable pink paint on the statue that commemorates the Italian journalist Indro Montanelli (1909-2001). The aim of exposing at a visual level the acclaimed writer's controversial past was crucial to the group's symbolic action. In fact, despite being a refer…
Introductory Note
Comics and graphic novels -or graphic narratives, as some prefer to call them In recent years, the emergence and spreading of the graphic novel, a format that is generally associated with "longer-length and adult-themed comics" (Baetens & Frey, 2015, p. 1) and with distribution channels (namely, bookshops) previously precluded the medium, allowed graphic narratives to enjoy a new renaissance in many areas of the globe. It also worked as a laissez…
Wonder feminisms
Since the beginning of the new millennium, the denunciation of gender-based violence has become widespread in Italy. Capitalising on the groundbreaking work of feminist movements of the 1970s and 1980s, a significant number of contemporary Italian collectives and networks have succeeded in bringing to the attention of mainstream media the issues of femicide, domestic abuse, rape and denied reproductive rights. Artivistic practices have played a c…
Re-appropriating Abjection
Julia Kristeva’s theories on the abject have proven fruitful for feminist criticism, which has produced a huge body of research on the representation of motherhood and femininity as macabre. More recently, the concept of abjection has been blamed for supposedly legitimising, instead of questioning, hetero-patriarchal erasure of women’s subjectivity. Despite this theoretical controversy, a growing number of comics and graphic novels, where the abj…
Grown Up Boyz and Girlz. Italian Graphic Novelists’ Trans-European Paths and Gendered Representations
Encouraged by a growing tendency towards international training and education as well as by the precarity that dominates artistic production in Italy, Italian comics artists are the protagonists of a diaspora as they emigrate to other European countries. This article investigates the effects of migration and geographical in-betweenness on the work of two Italian graphic novelists, Nicoz Balboa and Alice Socal, whose texts feature explicitly gende…
Self, Bodies, Memories. Women Graphic Novelists’ Autobiographical Coming of Age between Tradition and Innovation
Col fumetto posso fare di tutto’. Life Narratives and the Italian Graphic Novel
While comics studies are now a fully recognised field within academic debate in the humanities, it wasn’t until around ten years ago, when the medium really began to flourish, that they began to be accepted as an object of study in universities and research centres, including the field of Italian studies. This collective volume brings together an international group of scholars who were invited to reflect on one of the most fruitful genres in the…
Girls Who Love Girls and Boys Who Love Girlish Dresses
Joana Estrela, born in Penafiel in 1990, is a Portuguese illustrator and comics artist whose short but rich career path intersects significantly with the concerns of girlhood and the dynamics of the transnational creation and circulation of graphic narratives. In 2013, she self-published the zine, Os vestidos do Tiago , which was later re-published by the independent Luso-Brazilian publisher Sapata Press in 2018 and is now available in English wi…
Girls in Comics
As the guest editors of this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we invited comics and media scholars to discuss girlhood from the perspective of transnational and/or transmedia practices. These investigations avoid the trap Anita Harris warned us about in All about the Girl (2004) since they approach girlhood as a “constantly shifting” category, to use the words of Kristine Moruzi (2012: 191) rather than as a natural …
Quadrinhos Resistentes — Graphic Novels Against Gender-Based Violence in the Lusophone World
Gender-based violence, defined as any act of violence perpetrated due to the victim’s gender (Boyle, 2019), is a pervasive phenomenon with substantial socio-economic costs. In Portugal alone, gender-based violence is estimated to cost the State 8,4 million euros annually (European Institute for Gender Equality, 2021), while in Brazil, one of the most widespread forms of gender violence, violence against women, costs the government approximately 2…
Art (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Narrative (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Comics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (5 works)