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Black Skin, White Masks
€17,00di Frantz Fanon
First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon’s seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon’s descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.
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Krapp’s Last Tape and Embers
€16,30di Samuel Beckett
‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ was first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre in October 1958, and has since been played by a host of distinguished actors including Albert Finney and Max Wall. ‘Embers’ was specially written for radio and first performed in 1959.
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Malamine un african à Paris
€16,00di Simon-Pierre Mbumbo, Christophe Edimo
” Malamine, si tu retournes en Europe, tu ne reviendras jamais ! ” prédit la jeune femme. Mais Malamine, qui n’est pas “de la bonne tribu”, n’a pas la force de rester en Afrique. A Paris ce fier diplômé de la Sorbonne est brancardier, dans l’attente de se rendre utile pour l’Afrique. Il rencontre Germaine l’infirmière française, Diane l’africaine sans-papier, Maurice le confident, Ntounou l’éditeur afrocentriste et l’ultranationaliste Osagefyo. Mais tous ont des influences contradictoires. Alors, pour ne pas se perdre, Malamine devra, tel un alchimiste, transformer ses frustrations en espérances.
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We Don’t Stop Here: 20 anni di MulHolland Drive
€16,00di Franco Lonati
Nel 2016, un sondaggio condotto da BBC Culture presso 177 critici specializzati di 36 nazioni ha incoronato Mulholland Drive come miglior film del XXI secolo. Una precedente indagine realizzata da Sight and Sound nel 2012, volta a determinare i 100 miglior film di sempre secondo la critica, vide il film di Lynch al 28° posto della graduatoria, unico film del nuovo millennio a comparire nella speciale classifica, che vide Vertigo scalzare Citizen Kane dalla prima posizione che ha sempre occupato in classifiche analoghe. Si tratta, naturalmente, di sondaggi da prendere con le pinze, ma che dimostrano lo status di grande film ormai raggiunto da Mulholland Drive. Nel suo piccolo, lo dimostra anche questo volume, che vuole celebrare i vent’anni dall’uscita del film e raccoglie contributi di studiosi di diversa provenienza, non solo, o non principalmente, esperti di cinema. Ognuno guarda al film da una diversa prospettiva, avanzando nuove ipotesi e proponendo suggestive letture. Perché in fondo è questa la vera grandezza di Mulholland Drive: esempio perfetto di ‘opera aperta’, il film non smette, dopo due
decenni, di suscitare domande, di incitare interpretazioni, di invitare chi lo guarda – anche per l’ennesima volta – a trovare nuove chiavi di lettura.
Presentato a Cannes nel maggio 2001 e uscito nelle sale americane nell’ottobre dello stesso anno, Mulholland Drive si è subito imposto non solo come uno dei film più ispirati di David Lynch, ma anche come una delle pellicole più enigmatiche e affascinanti della storia del cinema. A vent’anni esatti dalla sua uscita, la reputazione critica del film si è ulteriormente rafforzata, tanto che molti esperti lo considerano il film più importante di questo scorcio di terzo millennio. Il successo duraturo del film dipende certamente, oltre che dalle sue indubbie qualità visuali e narrative, dal fatto di essere un’opera aperta, passibile di letture e interpretazioni virtualmente infinite. Il presente volume raccoglie saggi di studiosi provenienti da diversi ambiti, tutti accomunati dalla passione per il film e dalla volontà di continuare a indagare i suoi labirintici meandri.
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Cormac McCarthy: saggi a margine del canone
€16,00di Marco Petrelli e Giulio Segato
In questo libro, Giulio Segato e Marco Petrelli hanno scelto di dedicarsi a quelle che definiscono “province” dell’autore, ovvero tanto alle opere meno frequentate da critica e pubblico, quanto a prospettive critiche liminali o inedite sui romanzi più attestati. Opere e approcci trascurati, quindi, ma nient’affatto secondari. La volontà di Cormac McCarthy: saggi a margine del canone è infatti quella di dimostrare come la produzione periferica dell’autore, oltre a possedere un valore letterario certamente paragonabile a quello delle opere centrali, sia in grado di gettare su queste ultime una luce nuova e stimolante.
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A Question of Power
€15,25di Bessie Head
In this semi-autobiographical novel, Head tracks the protagonist Elizabeth’s struggle to emerge from the oppressive social situation in which she finds herself, and from the nightmares and hallucinations that torment her.
Elizabeth, like the author, was conceived in an out-of-wedlock union between a black man and a white woman of social standing – a union outlawed by her country of birth, South Africa. Elizabeth leaves South Africa with her young son to live in Botswana, a country that has escaped some of the worst evils of colonial domination. But in rural Botswana she is once again faced with a constricting social system as the villagers are suspicious of her urban ways and frown upon her individualistic behaviour. They also bear her ill will on racial grounds because she is light skinned like the ‘Bushmen’ who are a despised tribe there.
Elizabeth suffers not only social isolation but intellectual deprivation as well. One of the few people with whom she can converse as an intellectual equal is the American peace corps volunteer, Tom. During the four years in which Elizabeth is plagued by mental, social and economic challenges, it is Tom, and her own love for and obligation to her young son that help her to survive this ordeal.
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Singing is joy
€15,00by Silvio Zanon
A handbook dedicated to those with the desire to improve their knowledge of the Italian belcanto and the use of the voice in all types of musical genre. Ideal for gettng to know the secrets of vocal technique and the way the vocal apparatus is formed through the experience of a great Italian baritone who has treaded the boards of some of the most prestigeous theatres in the world.
Also available in Italian
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
€14,75by Edmund Buke
The most important works of Edmund Burke, the greatest political thinker of the past three centuries, are gathered here in one comprehensive volume. Accompanying his influential masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France, is a selection of pamphlets, speeches, public letters, private correspondence and, for the first time, two important and previously uncollected early essays.
Philosopher, statesman, and founder of conservatism, Burke was a dazzling orator and a visionary theorist who spent his long political career fighting abuses of power. He wrote at a time of great change, against the backdrop of the revolt of the American colonies, the expansion of the British Empire, the collapse of Ireland, and the French Revolution. Burke argued passionately in support of the American revolutionaries and in equally impassioned opposition to the horrors of the unfolding French Revolution. Making a case for upholding established rights and customs, and advocating incremental reform rather than radical revolutionary change, Burke’s writings have profoundly influenced modern democracies up to the present day.
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Theoretical Description and Practical Applications of Linguistic Corpora
€14,70by Roberta Facchinetti
This book is intended primarily as an introduction to linguistic corpora for any scholar, teacher or student who approaches them for the first time. To this aim, the author has provided an overview of their most typical features and contexts of exploitation, both in theoretical and in applied linguistics, together with a discussion on key issues pertaining to corpus design, compilation, and annotation. In so doing, an attempt has been made to clarify and systematize a few still foggy areas in this field, particularly from the terminological point of view. The book also includes three appendices, listing respectively all the corpora cited in the volume in alphabetical order, the software discussed and the other computerised resources quoted in the book. Every effort has been made to present the data and material in a clear, straightforward way, so as to enable the readers to glean information, to deepen their knowledge, and most of all to boost their desire for learning, which is the core of all theoretical knowledge and practical competence.
