This dissertation analyses Ermanno Rea’s Mistero napoletano (1995), Walter Siti’s Troppi paradisi (2006) and Wu Ming 2 & Antar Mohamed’s Timira. Romanzo meticcio (2012) as three case-studies of how writing connected to personal experiences and essayistic genres are combined in such a way as to give way to what can be defined as a first-person essay-novel. This literary form can also be considered as a typical example of what the literary scholar Raffaele Donnarumma has called “hypermodernity” in contemporary Italian literature, a multifaceted literary trend consisting in the critical and creative exploration of the possible interactions between literary forms and societal issues. The expression “personal experience writing” is used for a broad variety of life-writing, ranging from “traditional” forms of autobiography, biography and diary entries to creative literary adaptations of these forms (autofiction, biofiction, narrative diary). The “essayistic writing” that has been addressed include a wide set of discursive and argumentative modules through which authors elaborate and reflect on the literary, cultural, political and social contexts with which they interact as creative writers.

Mondillo, M. (2022). Dire (l’)io, dire il vero, dire nell’ipermoderno italiano. L’interazione tra scritture dell’esperienza personale e scrittura saggistica nel romanzo ego-saggistico. I casi di Rea, Siti e Wu Ming 2 e Antar Mohamed. [10.25434/mirko-mondillo_phd2022].

Dire (l’)io, dire il vero, dire nell’ipermoderno italiano. L’interazione tra scritture dell’esperienza personale e scrittura saggistica nel romanzo ego-saggistico. I casi di Rea, Siti e Wu Ming 2 e Antar Mohamed.

Mirko Mondillo
2022-01-01

Abstract

This dissertation analyses Ermanno Rea’s Mistero napoletano (1995), Walter Siti’s Troppi paradisi (2006) and Wu Ming 2 & Antar Mohamed’s Timira. Romanzo meticcio (2012) as three case-studies of how writing connected to personal experiences and essayistic genres are combined in such a way as to give way to what can be defined as a first-person essay-novel. This literary form can also be considered as a typical example of what the literary scholar Raffaele Donnarumma has called “hypermodernity” in contemporary Italian literature, a multifaceted literary trend consisting in the critical and creative exploration of the possible interactions between literary forms and societal issues. The expression “personal experience writing” is used for a broad variety of life-writing, ranging from “traditional” forms of autobiography, biography and diary entries to creative literary adaptations of these forms (autofiction, biofiction, narrative diary). The “essayistic writing” that has been addressed include a wide set of discursive and argumentative modules through which authors elaborate and reflect on the literary, cultural, political and social contexts with which they interact as creative writers.
2022
de Rogatis, Tiziana; Van Den Bossche, Bart
Mondillo, M. (2022). Dire (l’)io, dire il vero, dire nell’ipermoderno italiano. L’interazione tra scritture dell’esperienza personale e scrittura saggistica nel romanzo ego-saggistico. I casi di Rea, Siti e Wu Ming 2 e Antar Mohamed. [10.25434/mirko-mondillo_phd2022].
Mondillo, Mirko
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