Le identità regionali e l'Europa

Vi appare il mio saggio: "Letteratura e canone: le ragioni dell'identità culturale. Jeanette Winterson e J.M. Coetzee", pp. 95-104.This essay examines how the choice of a literary 'canon', by adopting universal and essentialist notions of identity, history, and values, tends to erase notions of cultural and gendered difference. The essay therefore aims at showing why marginal identities (gendered, postcolonial, regionalist ones) are often forced to assume a 'strategic essentialism' in order to simply make themselves heard and thus dismantle the authoritian stance of those essentialist positions often at work in the academia and in its priviledged establishment of 'the' canon. Some works of both authors are thus examined from the point of view of these critical, cultural studies standpoints. The essay furthermore aims to show why 'critical regionalism' has to be considered an important instance of the many and possible strains of cultural studies.