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Oltre il limite. Letteratura e disabilità
The question around disability and impairment passes through the individual subconscious and the collective imagination, the fears and repressions in many social classes, and has historically often led different societies to push away disabled people, or, less often, to include them in the social forum, giving them a role and a “sense”. Literature, in poetry and prose, has been telling about disability, using works about disability, in which disabled characters are described, and using works born from and in disability, written by those who experienced it directly or indirectly.
More and more often, indeed, the writes are people with disability or their relatives. The volumes shows a path through centuries, starting from the XVII Century, in the “literature of disability”. The project is born from the collaboration of various universities: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Naples Federico II and University of l’Aquila.
Authors
Daniela De Liso teaches Italian literature at the DSU at the University of Naples Federico II. She is member of the Scientific committee of “Critica letteraria” and “Studium”.
She wrote many volumes, such as: La scrittura della storia. Francesco Capecelatro (1594-1670), (2004); the unpublished draft of F. M. Pagano’s comedy, La Mengrelliana, (2004); «Flegrea» 1899-1901, (2006); Donne in versi. Di Giacomo, Gozzano, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Pavese, (2008); Percorsi derobertiani. Politica Donne Spazio, (2012); Letteratura di vino. Un viaggio enoico tra le pagine della Letteratura d’Italia, (2014); Da Masaniello a Eleonora Pimentel. Napoli tra storia e Letteratura, (2016); Salvator Rosa tra pennelli e versi. Con la raccolta di tutte le Poesie, (2018). She is the director of “Le Muse di Ippocrate” and, alongside with Valeria Merola, cured the first volume: La Medicina dell'anima. Prosa e poesia per il racconto della malattia, (2020).
Valeria Merola teaches Italian Literature at the Department of Human Sciences at University of l’Aquila. She wrote: La messinscena delle idee, Emanuele Tesauro e il «teatro di maraviglie », (2008); La morale allo specchio. Retorica e letteratura secentesca, (2012), Paradigmi edipici. Letture teatrali settecentesche, (2009), La scacchiera: il teatro di Alberto Moravia, (2017). She also cured the tragedy Edippo by Giovanni Andrea dell’Anguillara (2020). She is, moreover, the director of Raccordi. Studi di letteratura e altre discipline.
Federica Millefiorini holds a PhD in Contemporary italian literature and teaches Disability and Marginality Disability Literature at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She is member of the writing committee of “Rivista di letteratura italiana”.
Fabio Pierangeli teaches Italian Literature at University of Rome Tor Vergata. He wrote: Ombre e presenze. Ungaretti e il secondo mestiere (2016), Emilio De Marchi. Condanna e perdono (2018), Eraldo Affinati. La scuola del dono (2019). He cured the voice “Pasolini” for the volume Il contributo italiano alla cultura europea, (2018) cured by G. Ferroni, and the monography G. Tomasi di Lampedusa for the series Grandangolo by «Il Corriere della Sera».
