Naslov
Rethinking immigration, human rights, and otherness in some Italian immigrant narrative

Autori
Mihaljević, Nikica

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Naknadno / - , 2014

Skup
The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities

Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 27.11.2014. - 29.11.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
immigrant literature; ecocriticism; discrimination; immigrants; integration

Sažetak
Starting from the premise that in the immigrant literature it is possible to find numerous examples of the attempts to both improve the living conditions of all the members of a society and to give equal rights to each of them, the purpose of this paper is to give an ecocritical reading of some literary works of two Italian immigrant authoresses, Laila Wadia and Gabriella Kuruvilla. The main difference between the two authoresses is that in Wadia's work the examples of the integration of immigrants in the contemporary Italian society are frequent while Kuruvilla insists on the continuous questioning of double identity of immigrants and on the denunciation of racism and discrimination still present in the Italian society. Taking into consideration that ecocriticism not only examines human perception of nature and humans relation towards the nature, as well as other environmental issues in literature, in this paper we try to show that the ecocritical approach can also be used in order to find the ways for the integration of immigrants, usually perceived as different and others, in the contemporary society. Therefore, the aim is to show that the ecocritical reading, focusing on the creation of the so called “horizontal society”, gives a different approach to otherness and to the integration of immigrants, and it proposes a new type of society, in which the differences do not guarantee the supremacy of some members and the oppression of others, but are used to bring near all the members of a society. It may be summed that in the paper we try to show that in Wadia’s work it is possible to find out numerous examples of how to overcome the “vertical society” and how to avoid that the otherness is used for social exclusion and discrimination while Kuruvilla’s work constantly reminds us of how painful and complicated that struggle is.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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