Princesa: The Textual Space Between Translation and Divergence
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Publication date
2010-10-27ISSN
2469-4800
Abstract
This article examines Princesa, a testimonial text in which Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque, a Brazilian transvestite who emigrated to Italy in the early 1990s, narrates her life, from her childhood and adolescence in Brazil and through her trip to Europe. In the Roman prison of Rebibbia, Fernanda meets Maurizio Jannelli, a former member of the Italian Red Brigades sentenced to life for crimes related to the fighting of the seventies, and Giovanni Tamponi, a Sardinian shepherd imprisoned for various armed robberies. Fernanda, Maurizio and Giovanni will give life to this peculiar and hybrid text, Princesa, considered one of the first examples of the so called “Italian literature of migration”.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
82 - Literature
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Pages
16
Publisher
American Portuguese Studies Association
Collection
8
Is part of
Ellipsis. Journal of Lusophone Studies
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- Humanitats [190]
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