Mattia Bonasia

Transculturalità, identità-relazione e rizomatizzazione autoriale in Édouard Glissant, Luigi Meneghello e Salman Rushdie

Introduction

Transculturalità, identità-relazione e rizomatizzazione autoriale in Édouard glissant, luigi meneghello e salman rushdie. Analisi comparata di transculturalità, identità-relazione e rizomatizzazione autoriale in Glissant, Meneghello e Rushdie. Il saggio esplora l'influenza sulla poetica e narratologia.

Abstract

L’articolo intende studiare come la transculturalità non sia solo uno strumento interpretativo ascrivibile ai cultural studies, ma influenzi la scrittura da un punto di vista poetico e narratologico. In particolare, vengono comparati i casi di Édouard Glissant, Luigi Meneghello e Salman Rushdie, tre autori caratterizzati dall’attraversamento sociale e antropologico dei confini linguistici e sociali del campo transnazionale della letteratura. Nelle loro opere la transculturalità si lega a una forte intenzionalità poetica, che dà vita a romanzi-mondo caratterizzati da un narratore-rizoma. Si studiano due processi complementari: da un lato il narratore onnisciente (spesso alla prima persona) intreccia le differenti voci e storie di un discorso polifonico; dall’altro, si disfa in una pluralità di figure e personaggi che hanno veri ruoli attanziali lungo la narrazione. Queste linee di ricerca sono sviluppate attraverso uno studio comparato della produzione saggistica dei tre autori, contestualizzata con differenti voci critiche e teoriche sul tema, dai cultural studies alla narratologia.  

Review

This article proposes a compelling examination of transculturality not merely as a critical lens but as a fundamental force shaping poetic and narratological practice. By comparing the works of Édouard Glissant, Luigi Meneghello, and Salman Rushdie – three authors demonstrably engaged in traversing linguistic and social boundaries within the transnational literary field – the study promises to illuminate how this cultural crossing manifests in the very fabric of their writing. The ambition to move beyond an interpretive framework to analyze transculturality's influence on the intentional poetics and narrative structures of "world-novels" is particularly exciting and offers a fresh perspective on these canonical figures. The core of the article's argument hinges on the concept of the "narratore-rizoma" (rhizome-narrator) and two complementary processes. First, it explores how an often first-person omniscient narrator intricately weaves diverse voices and stories into a polyphonic discourse. Second, it investigates how this narrator simultaneously disaggregates into a plurality of figures and characters, each assuming significant actantial roles within the narrative. This dual functionality of the narrator – both unifying and decentralizing – provides a sophisticated analytical tool for understanding the complex narrative strategies employed by Glissant, Meneghello, and Rushdie. The proposed methodology, a comparative study of the authors' own critical essays contextualized with a broad range of critical and theoretical voices from cultural studies to narratology, appears robust enough to support these intricate claims. Overall, the article presents a highly original and theoretically rich contribution to comparative literature, narratology, and cultural studies. The concept of the "narratore-rizoma" offers a potentially groundbreaking framework for analyzing complex narrative identities shaped by transcultural experiences, moving beyond simpler notions of multiculturalism or hybridity. The selection of authors is astute, representing distinct yet interconnected trajectories of boundary-crossing authorship. This promises to be a timely and significant intervention, offering nuanced insights into the interplay between authorial identity, narrative form, and the profound impact of transculturality on contemporary literary expression. We anticipate that the full manuscript will meticulously elaborate on the precise mechanisms of this rhizomatic narrative function within each author's oeuvre, thereby solidifying its theoretical novelty.

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