Memory and Trauma in Amelia Rosselli's Diario in tre lingue: Feminine Translingual Writing
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| contents | <p> </p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">Amelia Rosselli’s </span><em><span lang="EN-GB">Diario in tre lingue</span></em><a title="" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB">[1]</span></strong></span></span></strong></span></a> <span lang="EN-GB">is linked to a feminine type of writing, which draws on <em>écriture féminine</em> and the semiotic, breaking free from the fixed, linear structures of symbolic discourse. Rosselli’s diary reveals an obsessive desire to find meaning in sounds, phonemes and words to get to the “significance” or rather their “insignificance”. On a biographical note, her diary hints at the suggestion that the self and life are also “insignificant”. This article explores</span><span lang="EN-GB"> how Rosselli’s literary text materialises memory by forging a distinctive type of feminine translingual text, through her unique narrative, poetic techniques, innovations, and linguistic experiments. It further explores how traumatic memory works through her diary and is transformed on the page. It recognises that writing and traumatic memory can act as material forces that actively shape the text and its production. Yet, trauma is not always visible, it is a force that works beneath surfaces, resurfacing in unexpected ways. The diary is a living assemblage of affect, where memory converges with reality, the body and history. It is a reminder of what has previously occurred and foreshadows future events.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> This article shows how the diary can become a repository of memory, and a living entity that mirrors Rosselli’s death by suicide, that ultimate desperate act of literary suicide, in a homage to Sylvia Plath. With her passing, Rosselli escapes the haunting memory of survivor’s guilt and her father’s “undead ghost”.</span></p> <div><br> <div> <p><a title="" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB">[1]</span></strong></span></span></strong></span></a><strong> </strong><em><span lang="EN-GB">A Diary in Three Languages</span></em><span lang="EN-GB"> was written between 1955-1956 and published in 1997. </span></p> </div> </div> |
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| spellingShingle | Memory and Trauma in Amelia Rosselli's Diario in tre lingue: Feminine Translingual Writing Zucca, Claudia Trauma Memory Mental illness écriture féminine Translingual writing <p> </p> <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">Amelia Rosselli’s </span><em><span lang="EN-GB">Diario in tre lingue</span></em><a title="" href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB">[1]</span></strong></span></span></strong></span></a> <span lang="EN-GB">is linked to a feminine type of writing, which draws on <em>écriture féminine</em> and the semiotic, breaking free from the fixed, linear structures of symbolic discourse. Rosselli’s diary reveals an obsessive desire to find meaning in sounds, phonemes and words to get to the “significance” or rather their “insignificance”. On a biographical note, her diary hints at the suggestion that the self and life are also “insignificant”. This article explores</span><span lang="EN-GB"> how Rosselli’s literary text materialises memory by forging a distinctive type of feminine translingual text, through her unique narrative, poetic techniques, innovations, and linguistic experiments. It further explores how traumatic memory works through her diary and is transformed on the page. It recognises that writing and traumatic memory can act as material forces that actively shape the text and its production. Yet, trauma is not always visible, it is a force that works beneath surfaces, resurfacing in unexpected ways. The diary is a living assemblage of affect, where memory converges with reality, the body and history. It is a reminder of what has previously occurred and foreshadows future events.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> This article shows how the diary can become a repository of memory, and a living entity that mirrors Rosselli’s death by suicide, that ultimate desperate act of literary suicide, in a homage to Sylvia Plath. With her passing, Rosselli escapes the haunting memory of survivor’s guilt and her father’s “undead ghost”.</span></p> <div><br> <div> <p><a title="" href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB"><span><strong><span lang="EN-GB">[1]</span></strong></span></span></strong></span></a><strong> </strong><em><span lang="EN-GB">A Diary in Three Languages</span></em><span lang="EN-GB"> was written between 1955-1956 and published in 1997. </span></p> </div> </div> |
| title | Memory and Trauma in Amelia Rosselli's Diario in tre lingue: Feminine Translingual Writing |
| topic | Trauma Memory Mental illness écriture féminine Translingual writing |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15834098 |