Lo specchio dell’io ritornando da scrittrici
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Mary di Michele, Genni Gunn, viaggioAbstract
Nella prima raccolta di poesie, Flower of Youth, Mary di Michele si trova a Casarsa delle Delizie dove viaggia attraverso il passato giovanile e problematico di Pier Paolo Pasolini, rispecchiandosi nella sua ricerca di creatività, passione, comprensione, perdono. In Solitaria, Genni Gunn viaggia in Puglia, alla ricerca dei luoghi, miti, superstizioni e credenze degli antenati di sua madre: attraverso il personaggio di Davide, ragazzo italo-canadese e suo alter ego la scrittrice dà voce ad una duplice cultura, doppia lingua e capacità meta-creativa. Entrambe le opere presentano il viaggio di ritorno in Italia come trasformazione e specchio delle proprie capacità creative.
A Mirror for the Self. Getting back as a Writer
In her first collection of poems, Flower of Youth, we find Mary di Michele in Casarsa della Delizia moving through Pier Paolo Pasolini’s troublesome youth, projecting herself in his own creativity, passions, sympathy, forgiveness. In Solitaria, Genni Gunn, instead, travels to Puglia, searching for places, myths, superstitions, beliefs of her mother’s ancestry. Tha main character, the alter ego of the writer, is Davide, an Italian Canadian young boy who represents the ambiguity of a double culture, a double language and meta-creative skills. Both these works focus on getting back to Italy as an experience of transformation and projection of their creative ability.
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