Identità e tradizione nei racconti delle donne aborigene: la trama magica di “Murgah Muggui”
Keywords:
partnership, globalizzazione, donne aborigeneAbstract
Questo intervento si focalizza su di un approccio cooperativo di partnership come modalità alternative al paradigma culturale di dominio imperante nel mondo globalizzato. In particolare, viene studiata la storia di una vecchia strega che fu tramutata in ragno – Murgah Muggui –, una storia ancestrale delle donne aborigene, così come trascritta da Katie Langloh Parker, per analizzare i rapporti simbolici e le consonanze archetipiche con storie e miti analoghi di altre tradizioni.
Identity and Tradition in the Short Stories by Aboriginal Women: La trama magica di Murgah Muggui
The following essay focuses on a coopertaive partenership approach based on alternative processes to the dominant paradigm of our globalized society. In particular this study concerns the story of an old witch turned into a spider – Murgah Muggui –, an ancestral legend which was translated by Katie Langloh Parker, who draws attention to the symbolic relations and archetypical consonances which can be associated with analogous myths from other traditions.
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