Lo spaesamento delle viaggiatrici europee al nord

Straniamenti odeporici

Author(s)

  • Ellen Patat Università degli Studi di Milano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18352/inc11005

Abstract

The displacement of European female Travellers in the North

Estrangements in travel writing

The present paper focuses on the travel accounts written by four women who decided to visit the European North in mid- and late-Nineteenth century: Ida Laura Pfeiffer’s Visit to Iceland and Scandinavian North (1853), Carla Serena’s Mon voyage personnels: souvenirs De la Baltique à la Mer Caspienne (1881), Ethel Brianna Tweedies’ A girl’s ride in Iceland (1889), and Elisa Cappelli’s In Svezia. Impressioni di viaggio (1902). The aim is to analyse these travel diaries to identify the various forms of displacement and estrangement presented to the readers. The term ‘displacement’ is here to be understood as the condition of the ‘outsider’, the perception of being ‘the Other’, whereas ‘estrangement’ could be considered the reformulation of this awareness. This paper highlights real displacements that derive from social, cultural, geographical, and gender discrepancies adopting a comparative approach, which concentrates on the textual and semantic solutions, also taking into account the interdependence of travel and writing and of space and people. These aspects intertwine with the factual reality of the travel discourse, ultimately leading to both ‘literary’ and ‘existential’ estrangements.

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Author Biography

  • Ellen Patat, Università degli Studi di Milano

    Ellen Patat è attualmente docente a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, SSML “P.M. Loria” e Università degli Studi Bicocca. Dopo la laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca in Plurilinguismo e Letterature Comparate presso l’Università degli Studi di Udine (Italia), un Master in Interpretazione di conferenza (EMCI) presso l’Università Boğaziçi (Istanbul,Turchia) e una seconda laurea in Lingua e cultura italiana per stranieri. I suoi studi riguardano la letteratura di viaggio moderna e contemporanea, la didattica EAP e ESP, e la scienza della traduzione. Tra le sue recenti pubblicazioni si ricordano: ‘I “bellicosi” paesaggi anni ’80. Le cronache di viaggio di Gianni Celati e Guido Ceronetti’, in: Quaderns d’Italià, 24 (2019), pp. 113-126; ‘Migrating identities. The Italian Female Gaze: Around the World in Thirty-four Stories’, in: In Passage: The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, 1, 1 (2018), pp. 1-16; ‘L’identita’ femminile – personale, sociale e globale – in Love in a Headscraf di Janmohamed e The Caged Virgin di Hirsi Ali’, in: Le Simplegadi, XVI, 18 (2018), pp. 82-97.

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Published

2021-09-09

How to Cite

Patat, E. (2021) “Lo spaesamento delle viaggiatrici europee al nord: Straniamenti odeporici”, Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 36(1), pp. 45–59. doi:10.18352/inc11005.