Costanza Mondo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6289181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Costanza Mondo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Costanza |
| FAMILY NAME | Mondo |
| SIGNATURE | MONDO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2236-4580 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature from the mid-1960s to the present Authors Costanza Mondo
This article examines garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature through contemporary literary sources, and sixties-seventies poetry from two East African literary journals. After exploring East African examples of Foucault’s “oriental garden”, I focus on the colonial English garden in East Africa and its transformation into a coveted status symbol after Independence. Drawing on MacKenzie’s “Empire of Nature” and Quijano’s “coloniality …
Inclusive Artistic and Literary Narratives in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Questo articolo propone nuovi aspetti dell’interpretazione del personaggio di Richard in Metà di un sole giallo di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Analizzando le narrazioni letterarie di Richard – rappresentate dalle idee per il suo libro e non solo – e la sua narrazione artistica di un antico manufatto Igbo, cercherò di sostenere che vengono messi in discussione presupposti sia coloniali che culturali. In un secondo momento, verrà anche esaminata e co…
A Bird’s-Eye View over Sydney
The creative and meaningful use of animal imagery plays an important role in Aravind Adiga’s novels. In his previous works, such as the 2008 Booker-prize-winning The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower (published in 2011), animal references frequently feature in the narration, thus conveying multi-layered meanings. However, animal references become particularly noticeable in Amnesty, his latest novel published in 2020. The aim of this paper is to i…
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Inclusive Artistic and Literary Narratives in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
Questo articolo propone nuovi aspetti dell’interpretazione del personaggio di Richard in Metà di un sole giallo di Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Analizzando le narrazioni letterarie di Richard – rappresentate dalle idee per il suo libro e non solo – e la sua narrazione artistica di un antico manufatto Igbo, cercherò di sostenere che vengono messi in discussione presupposti sia coloniali che culturali. In un secondo momento, verrà anche esaminata e co…
A Bird’s-Eye View over Sydney
The creative and meaningful use of animal imagery plays an important role in Aravind Adiga’s novels. In his previous works, such as the 2008 Booker-prize-winning The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower (published in 2011), animal references frequently feature in the narration, thus conveying multi-layered meanings. However, animal references become particularly noticeable in Amnesty, his latest novel published in 2020. The aim of this paper is to i…
Garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature from the mid-1960s to the present Authors Costanza Mondo
This article examines garden imagery in East African Anglophone literature through contemporary literary sources, and sixties-seventies poetry from two East African literary journals. After exploring East African examples of Foucault’s “oriental garden”, I focus on the colonial English garden in East Africa and its transformation into a coveted status symbol after Independence. Drawing on MacKenzie’s “Empire of Nature” and Quijano’s “coloniality …
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (1 work) · Amnesty (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Comparative and World Literature (1 work)