Arianna Dagnino
Biographic Data
| ID | 6847703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arianna Dagnino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arianna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dagnino |
| SIGNATURE | DAGNINO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7298-9116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Re-discovering Alessandro Spina’s Transculture/ality in The Young Maronite
Alessandro Spina, né Basili Shafik Khouzam, was born in Benghazi in 1927 into a family of Maronites from Aleppo and spent most of his life between Libya and Italy, speaking several languages and writing in Italian. He may be described as the “unsung” writer of Italian colonial and post-colonial past in North Africa. Spina’s oeuvre—collected in an omnibus edition, I confini dell’ombra. In terra d’oltremare (Morcelliana)—charts the history of Libya…
Contemporary Transcultural Auto/Biography and Creative Nonfiction Writing on the Neonomadic Frontier
The present article suggests that a desirable model of creative writing in the era of digital communications and new media, growing transnational flows, neonomadic life patterns (both online and offline), and global mobility is transcultural auto/biography. By this term I identify a form of creative nonfiction particularly suited to recording and exploring the renegotiation of individual cultural identities and the re-shaping of ever more complex…
Transculturalism and Transcultural Literature in the 21st Century
Transculturalism and Transcultural Literature in the 21st Century
Contemporary Transcultural Auto/Biography and Creative Nonfiction Writing on the Neonomadic Frontier
The present article suggests that a desirable model of creative writing in the era of digital communications and new media, growing transnational flows, neonomadic life patterns (both online and offline), and global mobility is transcultural auto/biography. By this term I identify a form of creative nonfiction particularly suited to recording and exploring the renegotiation of individual cultural identities and the re-shaping of ever more complex…
Re-discovering Alessandro Spina’s Transculture/ality in The Young Maronite
Alessandro Spina, né Basili Shafik Khouzam, was born in Benghazi in 1927 into a family of Maronites from Aleppo and spent most of his life between Libya and Italy, speaking several languages and writing in Italian. He may be described as the “unsung” writer of Italian colonial and post-colonial past in North Africa. Spina’s oeuvre—collected in an omnibus edition, I confini dell’ombra. In terra d’oltremare (Morcelliana)—charts the history of Libya…
History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Biography (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works) · Comparative and World Literature (1 works)